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State boards of pharmacy: official sites and licence-lookup portals

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Every U.S. state board of pharmacy and the District of Columbia is listed below with its official site and its licence-lookup portal, each URL re-fetched and marked with what that check established. A board is the only body that can tell you whether a pharmacy holds a licence in a given state, and it is the check a supplier’s own claim never substitutes for.

A prescriber vetting a compounding pharmacy has exactly one authoritative source for whether that pharmacy is licensed, and it is not the pharmacy. It is the board of pharmacy in the state where the pharmacy operates, and — separately — the board in the state the medication is being shipped into, which usually licenses out-of-state pharmacies under a nonresident permit. This page exists so that the check takes a minute rather than an afternoon.

The verification column is the point. Board sites are government systems with long histories of moving, and a directory that publishes a link without saying when it last worked is a directory that quietly rots. Every URL below was fetched on the retrieval date shown, and the flag records what that fetch established.

State boards of pharmacy with official site, licence-lookup portal, and per-URL verification status. Every URL fetched on the retrieval date shown above.
JurisdictionBoard of pharmacyLicence lookupWhat the lookup searches
AlabamaAlabama Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
AlaskaThe jurisdiction’s licensing site is behind an anti-bot layer that refused every automated check, so neither URL on file could be confirmed and the record itself marks them unconfirmed. Search the state’s own commerce or licensing department directly.The jurisdiction’s licensing site is behind an anti-bot layer that refused every automated check, so neither URL on file could be confirmed and the record itself marks them unconfirmed. Search the state’s own commerce or licensing department directly.The portal’s search scope could not be read from a public page, so what it covers is unknown rather than assumed.
ArizonaArizona State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists only
ArkansasArkansas State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupCheck refusedThe portal’s search scope could not be read from a public page, so what it covers is unknown rather than assumed.
CaliforniaCalifornia State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
ColoradoColorado State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
ConnecticutConnecticut Commission of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
DelawareDelaware Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
District of ColumbiaDistrict of Columbia Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
FloridaFlorida Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
GeorgiaGeorgia Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
HawaiiHawaii Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
IdahoIdaho Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
IllinoisIllinois State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
IndianaIndiana Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
IowaIowa Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
KansasKansas Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
KentuckyKentucky Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
LouisianaLouisiana Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
MaineMaine Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
MarylandMaryland Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
MassachusettsBoard of Registration in PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
MichiganMichigan Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
MinnesotaMinnesota Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupCheck refusedPharmacists and pharmacies
MississippiMississippi Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
MissouriBoard of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
MontanaMontana Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
NebraskaBoard of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
NevadaNevada State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
New HampshireBoard of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupCheck refusedPharmacists and pharmacies
New JerseyNew Jersey Board of PharmacyCheck refusedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
New MexicoNew Mexico Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
New YorkNew York State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
North CarolinaNorth Carolina Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
North DakotaNorth Dakota Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
OhioOhio Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
OklahomaOklahoma State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
OregonOregon Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
PennsylvaniaPennsylvania State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
Rhode IslandRhode Island Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
South CarolinaSouth Carolina Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
South DakotaSouth Dakota Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
TennesseeTennessee Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists only
TexasTexas State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
UtahUtah State Board of PharmacyCheck refusedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
VermontVermont State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedThe portal’s search scope could not be read from a public page, so what it covers is unknown rather than assumed.
VirginiaVirginia Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
WashingtonWashington State Pharmacy Quality Assurance CommissionVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
West VirginiaWest Virginia Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
WisconsinPharmacy Examining BoardVerifiedLicense lookupVerifiedPharmacists and pharmacies
WyomingWyoming State Board of PharmacyVerifiedLicense lookupCheck refusedThe portal’s search scope could not be read from a public page, so what it covers is unknown rather than assumed.
Board of pharmacy
The board’s name as the board itself spells it, linked to the board’s own site. Some third-party directories render these names differently.
Licence lookup
The board’s own verification portal. Verified separately from the board site, because the two answers differ on several jurisdictions.
What the lookup searches
Whether the portal searches pharmacy licences as well as individual pharmacists. A pharmacist-only portal cannot answer whether a pharmacy is licensed.

How to actually run the check

Ask the supplier for its licence number and the state that issued it, then look that number up on the issuing board’s portal yourself. A supplier that will not give you the number and the state has answered the question. Confirm the licence is current, that it is a pharmacy licence rather than a pharmacist’s, and that the name on the licence matches the entity on your invoice — a mismatch between the trading name and the licensed entity is common and worth understanding before you order.

Then run the second check, which is the one most prescribers skip: the board in your own state rather than the supplier’s. A pharmacy shipping into a state it is not located in generally needs that state’s nonresident or out-of-state permit, and that permit is issued and searchable by your board, not by the pharmacy’s. The vetting sequence in full is in how to vet a compounding pharmacy.

What a board lookup does not tell you

A current licence establishes that a pharmacy is permitted to operate. It does not establish which federal pathway it is operating under, and that is a different question with different consequences: a state-licensed 503A pharmacy and an FDA-registered 503B outsourcing facility are licensed and registered by different bodies under different rules, and only one of them can lawfully supply most office stock. That distinction is set out in 503A vs 503B, and the federal side is checked against FDA rather than a board — see where registered outsourcing facilities are.

A licence also says nothing about whether the preparation you are ordering may lawfully be supplied to you without a patient-specific prescription. That turns on your own state’s office-use rule, and the answers are not close to uniform — the states read in full are compared in the state-by-state office-use guide.

Why some rows say the check was refused

Several state licensing systems sit behind commercial anti-bot layers that refuse automated requests outright, returning the same refusal to a browser user-agent, to a full browser header profile, and to a real headless browser. That is a verdict about the request, not about the page: a refusal carries no information about whether the URL is live, and on the rows concerned an independent archive capture shows the page answering normally within the last few months.

Those rows are marked as refused rather than dropped, because the URL is still the one the board itself publishes and it will almost certainly open in your browser. What we will not do is print it with a verified flag we did not earn. Where nothing at all about a jurisdiction could be confirmed, the row publishes no URL and says so.

Method and retrieval

Data retrieved .

Each board’s name and URLs were established from that jurisdiction’s own government sources — never from a directory or an aggregator — and every URL was then independently re-fetched with a browser user-agent. Anything refused was retried with a full browser header profile and then with a real headless browser before being recorded as unconfirmed. Verdicts are based on the response body, not the status line: several state portals answer HTTP 200 with an access-denied or CAPTCHA page, so a 200 alone was never accepted as proof. No URL here is guessed, inferred, or carried over from a seed list without being checked.

Board sites and licence portals move without notice, and a stale link on this page is the failure this page exists to prevent. Re-verified quarterly, and the retrieval date above is the date every row was last fetched. Re-check any row before relying on it.

What this page does not establish

  • A verification flag records what a fetch established on 2026-08-28 and nothing after it. Boards move URLs without redirects; treat any row older than a quarter as a starting point rather than a current fact.
  • A refused check is not a dead link and not a working one. It means an anti-bot layer answered instead of the page, so the URL could be correct, moved, or gone.
  • One jurisdiction publishes no URL here at all. Its licensing site refused every automated check and the underlying record marks its URLs unconfirmed, so nothing about it was established well enough to print.
  • This page lists boards, not pharmacies. It contains no assessment of any pharmacy, any outsourcing facility, or any supplier — including ours — and a board listing is not an endorsement of anyone it licenses.
  • What each portal searches is recorded from the portal’s own interface where that was readable. Where it was not, the cell says so rather than assuming the portal covers pharmacies.
  • Our own office-use pages now exist for every jurisdiction in this table, and every row links to one. Coverage is not the same as certainty: several of those pages decline to state a verdict on purpose, and each one says in its own words what it does and does not establish.

Sources

Primary sources, fetched directly from the issuing body. No secondary summaries.

  1. [1]Alabama Board of Pharmacy — licence verification
  2. [2]California State Board of Pharmacy
  3. [3]Georgia Board of Pharmacy
  4. [4]Florida Board of Pharmacy
  5. [5]Texas State Board of Pharmacy
  6. [6]FDA — Human drug compounding: the laws and regulations