Compounding Pharmacy: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A pharmacy that specializes in the preparation of components into a drug preparation as the result of a Practitioner's Prescription Drug Order or initiative based on the Practitioner/Patient/Pharmacist relationship in the course of professional practice. A compounding pharmacy utilizes specialized equipment and specially designed facilities necessary to meet the legal and quality requirements of its scope of compounding practice.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 13 of 2,553 active records, or 0.5%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. Because the flag is self-reported, it is an imperfect proxy for private practice and does not identify every independently owned or privately practicing pharmacy. Treat the percentage as a description of NPPES reporting, not as a direct measure of ownership, business structure, or clinical independence.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• - NPPES records and taxonomy assignments may not reflect current operations, closures, or changes in services.
• - A primary taxonomy is a reported classification and may not capture all activities of an organization with multiple NPIs or services.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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