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Originally Posted by Flatbutt1
Part of the reason is that the compounding pharmacy is not a huge business, so they don't have the overhead, nor do they have the "beard" of recouping research costs.
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In addition, if the prescribed drug was a combination of existing drugs it could be re created by a compounding pharmacy. When their patent runs out a lot of drug manufacturers will combine that drug with something else to create a “new” drug (actually just a new product) that sells for some ridiculous price.
There was an infamous case of a manufacturer whose patent ran out on a pimple cream they had developed. To maintain market share they repackaged it into a kit with some skin cleaner and antibacterial wipes and doubled the price. Doctors were actually prescribing the kit - at something like $600 per script, when the generic version, a bottle of alcohol and some cotton balls would do the same thing for $25.