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c/compounding·posted 2 years ago by u/bilal_osei

[Meta] proposal — a flair for 503A posts

Regulatory Clean Column ×4 The Quiet One ×3

Genuinely asking, not being difficult.

Everyone in c/hplc repeats that compounding is important. I believe it, but I have never seen anyone show why, and when I search I get 2 threads of people agreeing with each other.

Is there a paper? Is there a measurement? Or is this one of those things that is true because it has been repeated since 2023?

I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.

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u/stubborn_batchlist_pls311 points·2 years ago

shortage list status is 503A, check the actual list

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u/bilal_oseiOP112 points·2 years ago

503B compounding is different from 503A, different rules, different legality

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u/rekha_mwangi100 points·2 years ago

the shortage list is temporary, it ends and compounding becomes illegal again

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u/ferran_mensah30 points·2 years ago

Yeah, 503A and 503B are different regulatory animals.

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u/ahmed_fonseca241 points·2 years ago

no pharmacy referral codes, naming is fine, recruiting is not

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u/medutest_mel65 points·2 years ago

The confident tone is doing a lot of work that the evidence is not.

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u/helga_vermeulen187 points·2 years ago

This is correct. The shortage list does expire and the rules change.

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u/tove_ogunleye-22 points·2 years ago

Are we talking 503A or 503B?

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u/usp_appendixMOD84 points·2 years ago

Flair changed to match the content. Read the sidebar before posting next time and we are square.

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u/julia_erdogan26 points·2 years ago·edited

Not to be pedantic but compounding and telehealth are being used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable in real life.

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u/bilal_oseiOP14 points·2 years ago

the shortage list is temporary, it ends and compounding becomes illegal again

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u/liver_enzyme_liz76 points·2 years ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with 503A, not with what you concluded.

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u/nadia_fonseca113 points·2 years ago

This is correct. The shortage list does expire and the rules change.

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u/cold_chromatogram3148 points·2 years ago

Yeah, 503A and 503B are different regulatory animals.

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u/ffmi_watcher25 points·2 years ago

Disagree but this is the good kind of wrong — it is specific enough to be checked.

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u/bilal_oseiOP0 points·2 years ago

the shortage list is temporary, it ends and compounding becomes illegal again

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u/marit_mwangi1 point·2 years ago

no pharmacy referral codes, naming is fine, recruiting is not

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u/mikkel_correia1 point·2 years ago·edited

API source questions are on-topic and compounders dodging them is newsworthy

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u/tobias_vukovic1 point·2 years ago

shortage list status is shortage list, check the actual list

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u/hydration_hank1 point·2 years ago

the 503A/503B distinction is load-bearing, do not blur it

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u/santiago_rasmussen24 points·2 years ago

the the UK situation is different from the US, different regulations

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u/rania_diallo15 points·2 years ago

Are we talking 503A or 503B?

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u/ffmi_watcher5 points·2 years ago·edited

telehealth prescriber models exist, pricing differs by state

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u/eu_apotheke_a10 points·2 years ago

Are we talking 503A or 503B?

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 11 weeks to accept.

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