ePrescribe Compound Medication
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Updated: 02/19/2026 | Views: 0
Clinical enables medical professionals to prescribe any compound as easily as a standard medication. With electronic transmission, clinicians can eliminate fax workflows, reduce pharmacy rework, and improve patient safety while maintaining full compliance.
Note: Electronic compound medications containing controlled substances must be submitted through the non-compound Rx workflow by selecting the primary ingredient and adding pharmacy instructions.
Available for eRx enrolled providers.
Access Patient Medications
- Enter the first 2–3 letters of the patient's name or date of birth (mm/dd/yyyy) in the top navigation bar search box.
- Click to select the patient from the auto-populated results. The patient's Facesheet page opens.
- Click Medications. The Active Medications page opens.
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Prescribe Compound Medication
- Click the Compounded Rx tab. The compound medication section opens.
- Drug Formalization: Enter a custom formulation using free-text with up to 25 ingredients.
- Name: Enter the prescription name.
- Allow Substitution: By default, allow substitution is selected to allow the use of a generic version of the drug. To disable, click to clear "Allow Substitution".
- Quantity: Click the drop-down and select from available quantity options for the drug or enter a custom quantity.
- Quantity Unit: Click the drop-down and select from available quantity units options: ml, g, ea, capsule, tablet, suppository, troche, or lozenge.
- Refill: Click the drop-down and select the number of refills for the prescription.
- Days supply: Enter the prescription days supply.
Note: For CQM reporting purposes only. The days supply does not populate on a printed prescription.
- Effective Date: If applicable, select a date the prescription is effective on.
- Patient Instructions: Manually enter the patient's instructions (up to 140 characters).
- Reason for Compounding: Manually enter the compounding reason (up to 30 characters).
- Reason For Rx: If applicable, enter an ICD-10 code or click Open ICD-10 Browser for more options.
- Service Location: The default address displays. Select a different service location from the drop-down as applicable.
- Supervising Provider: If applicable, select a supervising provider from the drop-down to send electronically.
Note: Only active providers who are eRx enrolled will populate in the drop-down list. Supervising provider does not populate on printed prescriptions.
- Add to Favorites: Click to save the compound medication as a drug favorite.
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Select Pharmacy
Select a pharmacy to send the compound medication.
- Pharmacy: By default, the patient's preferred pharmacy is populated. If the patient has multiple preferred pharmacies, click the drop-down to select a different pharmacy from the list.
- If necessary, click the drop-down and select Search for pharmacy to find a different pharmacy. The Find a Pharmacy pop-up window opens.
- Click to select a pharmacy from the auto generated results based on the patient's zip code or search for a pharmacy.
- To search for a pharmacy, remove the zip code and enter any of the following search criteria.
Tip: Search by a city name or zip code only for broader results.
- Pharmacy Name: Enter the first 2–3 letters of the pharmacy's name, the whole pharmacy's name, or store number (e.g., CVS, 4825).
Tip: To ensure the pharmacy offers compound medications, search for and select pharmacies with compound in the name.
- City: Enter the pharmacy's city.
- State: Select the pharmacy's state.
- Zip: Enter the pharmacy's zip code.
- Phone Number: Enter the pharmacy's phone number.
- Type: By default, View All is selected. To filter by a pharmacy type, click the drop-down to select Retail, Mail Order, or In House Dispensing.
- EPCS Certified: By default, pharmacies that are certified for electronic prescriptions for controlled substances (EPCS) display in the search results. To remove the filter, click to clear the selection.
- Click Select Pharmacy to add to the prescription.
- Pharmacy Instructions: Enter any instructions for the pharmacy; these notes will not appear on the prescription label.
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Complete Prescription
Electronically send the prescription or generate a paper prescription. If applicable, add multiple medications (including EPCS) to batch prescribe in a single order.
ePrescribe Compound Medication
eRx enrollment is required for providers to send prescriptions electronically.
- Click Send Medication. The New Prescription (Preview) pop-up window opens.
- Review the Patient, Medication, Pharmacy, and Prescriber details for accuracy.
- To make changes, click Edit to return to the prescription.
- By default, “Send prescription reminder via SMS” is selected to send the patient a prescription reminder via RxInform powered by DrFirst.
- Click Confirm to send the prescription to the pharmacy.
Any communication from the pharmacy (e.g., change request, send failure) about the prescription appears on both the eRx Requests page and the Medications page in the patient's record.
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Print Prescription
Regulations for printed prescriptions vary from state to state in the U.S. If your state requires special security paper for prescription printouts, you can search for and order paper that meets your state's regulatory requirements at rxpaper.net.
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- Click Print. A PDF of the prescription opens in a new browser.
Note: The prescription is formatted based on the practice's state in Practice Information.
- Use the browser function to print the prescription.
- If the prescription is not aligned with the prescription paper, adjust the margins for the printer in Prescription Preferences.
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