Compound Drug definition

Compound Drug means a formulation containing one or more “Drug Products”, which is extemporaneously weighed or measured then prepared by a pharmacy in accordance with a physician’s prescription order. A compound drug prescription meets the following criteria: two or more solid, semi-solid or liquid ingredients, at least one of which is a covered medication that is not commercially available. Compound drug claims will only be covered for medications for which the compounded product is not commercially available.
Compound Drug means a prescription product composed of two or more medications mixed together, with at least one of the component medications being a Federal Legend Drug. The end product must not be available in an equivalent commercial form. The product will not be considered a Compound Drug if it is reconstituted or if, to the active ingredient, only water, alcohol, flavoring, coloring or sodium chloride solutions are added.
Compound Drug means a mixture of two or more ingredients when at least one of the ingredients in the preparation is a federal legend drug or state restricted drug in a therapeutic amount. It excludes the addition of only water or flavoring to any preparation.

Examples of Compound Drug in a sentence

  • Compound Drugs unless all of the ingredients are FDA-approved in the form in which they are used in the Compound Drug and as designated in the FDA’s Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations, require a prescription to dispense, and the compound medication is not essentially the same as an FDA-approved product from a drug manufacturer.

  • The data alignment requirements do not apply to the Compound Drug Claim and the Noncompound Drug Claim.

  • Section VI – Prescription Compound Drug Information:List the quantities of ingredients in units of measure (mg, ml, etc.).

  • U.S. Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, Workers’ Compensation Compound Drug Costs, Management Advisory Report Number HR-MA-16-003, March 3, 2016, p.

  • The claim must contain a valid national drug code (NDC) number for at least one ingredient in the Compound Drug.


More Definitions of Compound Drug

Compound Drug means a formulation containing one or more “Drug Products”, which is extemporaneously prepared by a Participating Pharmacy in accordance with a Physician’s prescription order.
Compound Drug means a drug that is created by combining one or more active pharmaceutical ingredients, and one or more inactive ingredients, to meet specific patient medical needs that presumably cannot be met with FDA-approved prescription drugs, FDA-approved non- prescription drugs, or other drugs commercially available in the marketplace. For the purposes of this subchapter, a compound drug shall be treated the same as a Non-Preferred drug but at all times shall be subject to federal law governing compounding, including title 21, United State Code, sections 353a, 353a-1, 353b.
Compound Drug means any drug that has more than one ingredient, at least one of which is a Federal Legend Drug or a State Restricted Drug.
Compound Drug means a formulation containing one or more “Drug Products”, which is extemporaneously weighed or measured then prepared by a Participating Pharmacy in accordance with a Physician’s Prescription Order. A Compound Drug prescription meets the following criteria: two or more solid, semi-solid or liquid ingredients, at least one of which is a Covered Medication that is not commercially available. Compound drug claims will only be covered for medications for which the compounded product is not commercially available.
Compound Drug means a prescription where two or more pharmaceutical products are mixed together, and which, at a minimum, one pharmaceutical product must be a Federal Legend Drug. The end product must not be available in an equivalent commercial form. The product will not be considered a Compound Drug if it is reconstituted or if, to the active ingredient, only water, alcohol, flavoring, coloring or sodium chloride solutions are added.
Compound Drug. A product prepared by a pharmacist from a prescription drug order that results from the combining, mixing, or altering of two or more ingredients, excluding flavorings, to create a customized drug.
Compound Drug means a prescription where two or more medications are mixed together, and which, at a minimum, one medication must be a Federal Legend Drug. The end product must not be available in an equivalent commercial form. The product will not be considered a Compound Drug if it is reconstituted or if, to the active ingredient, only water, alcohol, flavoring, coloring or sodium chloride solutions are added.