Understanding Patient-Specific 503A Compounding
Belmar Pharma Solutions’ 503A compounding pharmacy has been filling patient-specific prescriptions since 1985. We deliver health and wellness medication options that are customized for your patient.
What Is Patient-Specific Compounding?
With compounding, we have the flexibility to address specific patient needs. For example, we can compound a drug formulation to eliminate allergens, tailor dosages, enhance absorbability, combine drugs for convenience, or improve flavor and texture.
Standard pharmacies don’t fill prescriptions for compounded medications; that’s the work of compounding pharmacies. Belmar has two kinds of facilities — a 503A Compounding Pharmacy and a 503B FDA-registered Outsourcing Facility. Our 503B outsourcing facility, Belmar Select Outsourcing, produces batches of non-patient-specific compounded products that we distribute to clinical offices and other pharmacies. Belmar Pharmacy, our 503A facility, is our traditional compounding pharmacy where we make individualized formulations, following a compounded prescription that you write for a specific patient.
What Conditions Can Be Addressed With Belmar Medication Solutions?
Belmar compounds medications designed to help with hormone replacement, thyroid and autoimmune diseases and disorders, sexual wellness, aesthetic dermatology, brain/sleep/mind support, and other interventions to promote your patient’s health. Many of our compounded medications are personalized to help increase your patients’ sense of wellness and their ability to fully enjoy their lives.
What Dosage Forms Does Belmar Offer?
Capsules (Oral)
- Oil
- Powder
Tablets
- Oral
- Vaginal
Fast-burst Sublingual Tablets
- Oral
- Vaginal
Solutions and Suspensions
- Oral
- Topical
Troches
- Buccal
Suppositories
- Rectal
- Vaginal
Troches
- Buccal
Gels
- Topical
Injectables
- Intramuscular (IM)
- Subcutaneous (SQ)
- Intracavernosal (ICI)
Belmar’s Focus on Quality
We promote a culture of quality and compliance. Every member of our team cares about the safety of our medications and the health of your patients. We believe we have the highest level of quality standards of any compounding pharmacy in the U.S.
We strictly comply with all regulatory standards for our industry, established by:
- DEA, which oversees the controlled substances sometimes used in compounded preparation
- USP Convention, which issues practice standards ensuring quality and safety of medications
- USP General Chapter <795> provides guidelines for the prevention of contamination and potency variance, preparation process, beyond-use dates, and stability for non-sterile compounding
- USP General Chapter <797> provides guidelines for sterile compounding with a focus on quality in handling, storage, packaging, and transport of medications
- USP General Chapter <800> provides guidelines for medication handling in healthcare settings
At Belmar Pharmacy, we uphold our own policies that exceed even these industry standards. Our ingredients and compounds are continuously tested and retested at random by an independent lab, all the way from sourcing through distribution.
We own FDA-registered Green Mountain Pharmaceuticals, a company that sources and manufactures many of the bulk ingredients that supply our pharmacy. Whether our active ingredients come from our own sister company or external suppliers, we require the same rigorous safety measures.
Why Should You Use Belmar for Your Patient-Specific Compounding?
As a national compounding pharmacy with more than three decades of patient-specific compounding experience, we offer:
- Reliability, based on the expertise we’ve gained over our long history in business
- Individualized therapies for a range of health and wellness issues
- Standard and specialized dosage forms
- Carefully enforced high-quality standards for ingredients
- Expert-level clinical education and consultation resources
- Patient education to help your patients understand and take full advantage of the medications you prescribe
- Outstanding Customer Service
- Inventory Management Assistance
- A team of Solutions Engineers to support your practice
How to Get Started Working With Us
We provide an abundance of information on our website for clinicians. If this is your first time working with a compounding pharmacy, we can help you get started with our instructions for writing patient-specific compounding prescriptions. You can also set up a one-on-one consultation with our compounding experts to get answers to any of your questions.
How to Talk to Your Doctor About Getting Compounded Therapies
If you’re a patient, we’re here to help you fill prescriptions or provide you with the information you need to work with your doctor. Together, you can decide if a compounded prescription may be a good therapy for you.
Prescribers, for a complete formulary or access to our clinical resources, fill out the form below. If you are new to compounding, you may also want to visit our page on How to Write a Compounding Prescription.
