Verify a compounding pharmacy before your clinic relies on it
A polished website, a wholesale catalog or a glowing reference is not verification. Before a clinic builds a service line on any supplier, qualified people check a short list of facts, per product and per state. This guide names the questions. It does not name or rank suppliers.
Licensure and route
Is the pharmacy licensed in its home state, and in good standing? Check the state board directly, not the pharmacy's own claim.
Is it licensed or registered as a nonresident pharmacy in your state, if your state requires that for shipping?
Which compounding category applies to the product you are considering (for example, patient-specific 503A versus outsourcing-facility 503B), and is the facility registered accordingly?
Quality documentation
Ask for a Certificate of Analysis per lot, current, for the exact product and strength. A single old COA is a start, not verification.
Ask what potency and sterility testing is performed and by whom.
Have a qualified reviewer read the documents. Do not self-certify paperwork you are not trained to evaluate.
Terms and reliability
Get pricing, fulfillment times and shipping footprint in writing, and recheck them; compounding supply conditions change.
Ask how shortages, recalls and complaints are handled, and how your clinic would be notified.
Read the contract for volume commitments. Do not commit to volume your own demand tally has not proven.
Boundary checks
Anything labeled research-use stays out of the patient-care plan, whatever the sales conversation says.
A supplier's marketing claims about your services are not your compliance review. Your advertising is your responsibility.
If answers are slow, vague or verbal-only, record it and treat the item as unverified.
Record it like it matters
For each question, write the qualified owner, the source checked and the date. Verification lives in your records, not in the supplier's inbox. If a financial relationship exists between anyone advising you and a supplier, get that disclosed in writing before acting on a recommendation.
This is a planning checklist for established clinics. It is not legal, clinical or procurement advice, and it does not certify any pharmacy. State boards, FDA resources and qualified reviewers are the primary sources.