Compounding Pharmacy
1,219 active US providers register Compounding Pharmacy as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 364th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 3336C0004X
- Grouping
- Suppliers
- Classification
- Pharmacy
- Specialization
- Compounding Pharmacy
- Active providers
- 1,219
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
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.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 144 | |
| Texas | 127 | |
| Florida | 108 | |
| North Carolina | 47 | |
| New York | 45 | |
| Arizona | 44 | |
| Tennessee | 40 | |
| Washington | 33 | |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | |
| Michigan | 30 | |
| South Carolina | 28 | |
| Georgia | 28 | |
| Ohio | 27 | |
| Virginia | 26 | |
| Utah | 25 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
8 of these are people and 1,211 are organisations, so 99% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2013, and 296 registered in the last five years, 24% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- HOUSTON, TX27
- LAS VEGAS, NV14
- DALLAS, TX12
- SCOTTSDALE, AZ11
- TAMPA, FL9
- PHOENIX, AZ9
- CHARLOTTE, NC8
- MIAMI, FL8
- LOS ANGELES, CA7
- BROOKLYN, NY7
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Compounding Pharmacy most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Community/Retail Pharmacy | 322 | 26.4% |
| Pharmacy | 302 | 24.8% |
| Specialty Pharmacy | 84 | 6.9% |
| Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies | 51 | 4.2% |
| Mail Order Pharmacy | 44 | 3.6% |
| Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy | 38 | 3.1% |
| Long Term Care Pharmacy | 26 | 2.1% |
| Clinic Pharmacy | 14 | 1.1% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Pharmacy.
- Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy1,364
- Specialty Pharmacy1,364
- Institutional Pharmacy971
- Clinic Pharmacy1,688
- Mail Order Pharmacy629
- Long Term Care Pharmacy8,765
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.