Compounding

The pharmacy process of preparing individualized medications by combining, mixing, or altering active ingredients outside standard commercial manufacturing. Tracked in PBM and specialty pharmacy systems using NCPDP billing codes to manage clinical appropriateness, prior authorization, and formulary exception workflows.

• PBM claims adjudication and drug utilization review
• Controlled substance monitoring and DEA compliance
• Pharmacy data warehouse and ETL pipeline design
• Prior authorization and step therapy workflows
• Medicare Part D reporting and CMS submissions

ISO-11179 snake_case standard

-- Recommended column name
comp

-- Example DDL
CREATE TABLE healthcare_data (
  record_id   VARCHAR(50)   NOT NULL,
  comp         VARCHAR(100),  -- Compounding (max 100 chars)
  created_dt  TIMESTAMP     NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
);

Column names follow the ISO-11179 naming convention: lowercase, underscore-separated, using the standard abbreviation as a prefix where applicable.