Working Together to Protect Access to Personalized Medicine
Thoughtful policy starts by understanding the patients, providers, pharmacies, and communities it affects.
Strive Pharmacy works with legislators, regulatory agencies, trade associations, and healthcare leaders to provide practical insight into pharmacy compounding and its role in patient care. Our goal is to serve as a trusted resource, support informed policymaking, and help preserve appropriate access to personalized medications.
Why Compounding Matters
Commercially manufactured medications meet the needs of many patients, but they may not account for every clinical circumstance or unique patient need.
Compounding allows licensed healthcare providers and pharmacists to work together when a patient needs a strength, dosage form, delivery method, ingredient profile, or combination that is not commercially available. Compounding pharmacies may also support medication access during certain recognized drug shortages.
Because compounding is governed at both the state and federal levels, policy decisions can directly affect patient access, provider discretion, pharmacy operations, and continuity of care. Strive participates in these conversations to help policymakers understand how proposed changes may translate into real-world outcomes.
Meet Strive
Strive is a patient-first 503A compounding pharmacy serving providers and people across the country. Our pharmacies prepare patient-specific medications based on valid prescriptions from licensed healthcare providers.
Strive brings together pharmacists, technicians, quality professionals, compliance specialists, patient care teams, and operational experts around one shared purpose: helping providers prescribe medication options that meet the unique health needs of the individual.
- 1,000+ Team Members
- 50 States licensed in
- 7 Pharmacy locations
- NABP Accredited, VPP Verified
- PCAB (ACHC) Accredited
- LegitScript Certified
A Trusted Resource for Policymakers
Our advocacy is grounded in the work happening inside our pharmacies every day. That experience gives Strive practical insight into how legislation and regulation affect patients, providers, pharmacy teams, and healthcare delivery.
We advocate by:
- Helping policymakers understand what pharmacy compounding is, how it works, and how it’s regulated
- Sharing operational insight from a pharmacy licensed across all 50 states
- Bringing patient and provider perspectives into policy conversations
- Working with trade associations and other healthcare stakeholders
- Supporting solutions that promote rigor, accountability, provider judgment, and appropriate patient access
Our goal is not simply to identify challenges. We want to help policymakers develop informed, workable solutions.
Advocacy
in Action
Strive participates in state and federal advocacy efforts to ensure that policy conversations include the perspectives of pharmacists, providers, and patients.
Our team meets directly with legislative offices, works alongside industry organizations such as Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding (APC) and Professional Compounding Centers of America (PCCA), monitors developing policy, and helps translate complex pharmacy issues into clear, practical information.
These conversations are about informed, workable policy centered on the people it is intended to protect.
“Good policy begins when the people closest to patient care have a seat at the table.”
Policy and Educational Resources
Explore information designed to support a clearer understanding of pharmacy compounding and the policies that affect it.
Understanding 503A and 503B
An overview of the distinct roles and requirements of traditional 503A compounding pharmacies and 503B outsourcing facilities.
How Compounding Is Regulated
A guide to the state and federal entities involved in overseeing pharmacy compounding.
Current Issue Briefs
Timely summaries of legislative and regulatory issues that may affect patients, providers, and pharmacies.
Compounding in Patient Care
Learn why a provider may prescribe a patient-specific compounded medication when commercially available options may not meet an individual’s needs.
Industry Resources
Explore additional education and information from Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding.
Strive Across
the Country
National Perspective. Local Impact.
Strive’s pharmacies support providers, patients, employees, and communities across the country. Operating across multiple states gives our team firsthand insight into how state and federal policies work together and how regulatory changes affect healthcare delivery at the state and local level.
Strive in the News
Stay informed about Strive’s growth, advocacy efforts, industry involvement, and commitment to personalized medicine.
Let’s Work Together
The issues surrounding pharmacy compounding can be complex. Strive is available to answer questions, provide background, share operational insight, and connect policymakers with the pharmacists, providers, and patients who understand the impact firsthand.
We welcome the opportunity to work together in support of policies that promote rigor, accountability, provider clinical judgment, and appropriate patient access.
This information is intended for educational purposes only and does not constitute medical or legal advice. Clinical decisions remain the responsibility of the prescriber at the discretion of their independent professional judgment. Availability and permissible compounding practices vary by state law.