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What if the pharmacy is in another state?

The care page is local, but the medicine label may name a pharmacy in another state. That is fine only when the pharmacy name on the label matches a Connecticut registration.

State check

Connecticut must know the pharmacy

As of September 2026, a pharmacy based outside Connecticut has to register as a nonresident pharmacy before shipping prescription medicine into the state.

Search the full name under the nonresident pharmacy type in eLicense.

Check the pharmacy record

Extra check

Sterile compounding needs more state approval

As of September 2026, a pharmacy based outside Connecticut that compounds sterile medicines for patients here needs extra state approval before it starts that work.

Sterile medicines are ones that must be free of germs, such as injections.

The state also requires that pharmacy to send Connecticut a recent inspection report showing it meets the national standard for making sterile medicines.

You do not need to find that report. The pharmacy sends it to the state; your part is to check the registration.

Ask the care service

Do not accept “partner pharmacy”

Ask for the pharmacy’s full name and home state. Then check that exact name.

A clinic’s licence does not replace the pharmacy’s licence.