Is Optimal Balance Pharmacy legit?

Here is what we can and cannot confirm. Optimal Balance Pharmacy operates as a 503A compounding pharmacy out of Houston, TX. Its authority to operate rests on a state board of pharmacy license and nothing further. No recent public FDA enforcement action has reached our records, and that is not the same as none existing. Enforcement history moves, so put the current standing to your state board of pharmacy before you fill anything.

Where is Optimal Balance Pharmacy located?

Optimal Balance Pharmacy works out of Houston, TX, and holds licenses to ship into 0 US states.

What does Optimal Balance Pharmacy produce?

Alongside its other compounded preparations, Optimal Balance Pharmacy makes compounded semaglutide and compounded tirzepatide. Being a 503A pharmacy, it compounds only against a prescription written for one named patient, with the state board of pharmacy watching.

What separates a 503A pharmacy from a 503B?

Two things separate them: who inspects, and how much may be made at once. A 503B outsourcing facility registers with the FDA itself, works to current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP), submits to FDA inspection, and may make compounded medication in batches with no named patient attached. A 503A pharmacy cannot do that. It fills a prescription written for one patient, answers mainly to its state board of pharmacy, and works to the USP standard for sterile compounding. Neither route produces an FDA-approved drug.

Compounding Pharmacy · Houston, TX · 503A

Optimal Balance Pharmacy Review

Christopher Quintana owns Optimal Balance Pharmacy, a 503A sterile compounder operating as OBPRX from Ste F&G, 2204 Cypress Creek Pkwy, Houston, TX 77090, NPI 1306535307. Inspections have come through the NABP Verified Pharmacy Program (VPP) and from the Texas State Board of Pharmacy. It is USP <795>/<797>/<800> compliant and sources API as a PCCA member. GLP-1 compounding is listed among its sterile-lab specialties, yet as of 2026-05-25 no specific products are enumerated on its public website. Published only as an image, the licensure map yields no explicit state list.

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503AState pharmacy license (Texas)PCCA memberNABP Verified Pharmacy Program (VPP) inspectedUSP <795>/<797>/<800> compliant

Location: Houston, TX

Website: obprx.com

States licensed: 0

5.5

★★★☆☆2.8/5

Our own score · methodology

GLP-1 Partners We Score Highest

None of these fill through Optimal Balance Pharmacy. They are the compounded GLP-1 partners at the top of our own scoring, here in case you would rather start with a service we have taken through signup ourselves.

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Cash-pay pricing · HSA/FSA accepted · every partner checked by our editors

7.7

Try Ageless

Semaglutide at $119/month, 37% under the register median

Starting price: $119/mo

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8.8

Found

Tirzepatide at $169/month, 37% under the register median

Starting price: $99/mo

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8.3

Telos Rx

Starting below a standard dose, with microdose tiers

Starting price: $49/mo

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7.0

MyDrHank

An oral route if you will not self-inject

Starting price: $35/mo

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Provider	Starting price	Best for
7.7Try Ageless	$119/mo	Semaglutide at $119/month, 37% under the register median	Get started →
8.8Found	$99/mo	Tirzepatide at $169/month, 37% under the register median	Get started →
8.3Telos Rx	$49/mo	Starting below a standard dose, with microdose tiers	Get started →
7.0MyDrHank	$35/mo	An oral route if you will not self-inject	Get started →

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Accreditations and Standards

Sterile compounding in this country runs on one rulebook, General Chapter <797> of the United States Pharmacopeia^[4]. Depending on what is being made, the finished preparation is then tested for sterility under USP <71>^[5] and for bacterial endotoxins under USP <85>^[6]. Every pharmacy on this page owes those standards already. What follows is what this one has added on top.

State pharmacy license (Texas)

The home state board of pharmacy has issued a license. Every pharmacy in the country needs one to open its doors, so treat this as the floor rather than a distinction.

503A

A Section 503A pharmacy. It compounds against a prescription written for one named patient, and its day-to-day regulator is the state board of pharmacy rather than the FDA.

PCCA member

Professional Compounding Centers of America, a supplier network that sells member pharmacies pharmaceutical-grade ingredients, formulations and training. A buying relationship rather than an audit.

NABP Verified Pharmacy Program (VPP) inspected

The National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, the body the state licensing boards themselves belong to. Its programs, among them the Verified Pharmacy Program, inspect and confirm how a pharmacy operates when it works across state lines.

USP <795>/<797>/<800> compliant

The United States Pharmacopeia chapters that set compounding quality: <795> for non-sterile preparations, <797> for sterile, <800> for hazardous drugs. State boards enforce them at inspection.

What It Compounds

Whether any pharmacy may compound semaglutide or tirzepatide at all turns on where the reference product sits on the FDA Drug Shortage List. When a drug comes off that list the door closes, and it has closed before^[7].

Semaglutide

Compounds semaglutide

Tirzepatide

Compounds tirzepatide

States Licensed

Optimal Balance Pharmacy publishes no state-by-state licensure list, so we cannot tell you whether it is licensed where you live. Put that question to your own state board of pharmacy before you fill anything here.

What Regulators Have on File

Our records hold no public FDA enforcement action and no recall against Optimal Balance Pharmacy. Read that as the edge of what we found rather than as a clearance. Enforcement arrives after the fact, so check with the FDA, and with your own state board, yourself.

How GLP Watchdog Scored This Pharmacy

Accreditation held6/10

Standing with regulators9/10

States licensed0/10

GLP-1 compounding10/10

Years operating5/10

We research every score ourselves. The methodology page sets out how each part is weighted.

Medium confidence · Last verified 2026-05-25 via Dale Ferris · How we check provider data

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Semaglutide · Drugs and brands
Tirzepatide · Drugs and brands
Compounded GLP-1 · Pharmacy and drug forms
503A pharmacy · Pharmacy and drug forms
503B outsourcing facility · Pharmacy and drug forms
PCAB accreditation · Pharmacy and drug forms
Off-label use · Insurance and regulatory
FDA Drug Shortage List · Insurance and regulatory

Where to fill semaglutide Back to the register

Sources & methodology — as of August 2026

1.FDA — Compounding and the 503A Pharmacy Framework— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
2.FDA — 503B Outsourcing Facility Registration and Requirements— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.
3.PCAB — Pharmacy Compounding Accreditation Board Standards— Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) / PCAB.
4.USP General Chapter <797> — Pharmaceutical Compounding: Sterile Preparations— United States Pharmacopeia.
5.USP General Chapter <71> — Sterility Tests— United States Pharmacopeia.
6.USP General Chapter <85> — Bacterial Endotoxins Test— United States Pharmacopeia.
7.FDA — Drug Shortages Database (current shortage listings)— U.S. Food & Drug Administration.