Compounding Cost Sheet.
An app idea for independent pharmacies.
Calculates the real cost of a compounded prescription from bulk ingredient prices and labor time, so owners stop guessing what to charge.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Independent compounding pharmacy owner
- The problem
- Owners price compounds by feel and find out months later that a formula loses money. Ingredient prices move and labor time is never written down.
- The gap
- Compound Direct already does labor rate and ingredient cost math, but it is tied to its own pricing documentation and not built as a standalone cost sheet for an independent owner pricing their own formulas.
- Already out there
- Compound Direct pricing docs compound.direct
Shows a labor cost plus ingredient cost calculation. It is documentation for that platform, not a general tool an owner can use for any formula.
- Simplifi 797 wolterskluwer.com
Compounding compliance software. Focused on regulatory and quality tasks, not on costing a formula to set a price.
- Compound Direct pricing docs compound.direct
- People asking for it
- Compound Direct pricing example compound.direct
Walks through labor cost from compounding time and rate per minute plus ingredient cost, showing this math is done by hand today.
- r/tirzepatidecompound pharmacy cost reddit.com
Patients compare what different compounding pharmacies charge, showing prices vary widely for the same drug.
- Compound Direct pricing example compound.direct
- The big assumption
- Owners will keep ingredient prices and labor minutes updated in a tool instead of pricing by feel.
- Test it this week
- Ask five compounding owners to price one formula out loud and time how long it takes them to find ingredient costs.
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