Ohio Board of Pharmacy

About this board

Pharmacist verification matters in obvious places like retail and hospital pharmacies, but the TDDD side is just as important: clinics, surgery centers, veterinary practices, and even some research facilities must hold a facility license to legally possess prescription drugs. Business-to-business due diligence in healthcare frequently includes a TDDD check.

The Board is also a primary enforcement agency for Ohio’s controlled-substance rules and operates OARRS, the state prescription monitoring program. Its disciplinary reach covers both individuals and facilities, and license records reflect that dual role.

Board of Pharmacy by the numbers

These figures are ours, not the board's — we computed them from the full State of Ohio licence file so you can see this board in context rather than one record at a time. Data as of September 2026.

Only 35.1% of the 165,300 licences this board has on record are currently active — the other 64.9% belong to people who retired, moved, changed careers, or simply let a credential lapse. That gap is the single best reason to verify a licence rather than assume a name in a database means somebody may practise today.

Most common licence types

When a licence from this board is not active, the most common reason recorded is expired (58,919 records), followed by deceased (3,538). Our status dictionary explains what each label actually means.

1.54% of this board's licences carry a recorded board action (2,543 of 165,300), against about 1.6% across all Ohio professions. A board action covers everything from an administrative consent agreement to revocation, and it is cumulative over a licence's whole life — see how we measured that before reading much into it.

Computed by OhioLicenseCheck from the State of Ohio eLicense dataset (issued licences only; application records excluded). Refreshed daily.

Who verifies these licenses?

• •Pharmacies confirming pharmacist and intern credentials at hire
• •Drug wholesalers verifying a customer’s TDDD license before shipping
• •Clinics and medical practices confirming their own facility licensure is current
• •Insurers and PBMs auditing network pharmacies

Verification tips

• For facility checks, verify the TDDD license for the exact location — facility licenses are site-specific.
• A pharmacy intern license is time-limited and tied to training status; it is not equivalent to a pharmacist license.
• Check both the pharmacist-in-charge and the facility when doing due diligence on a pharmacy.

Renewals and expiration

Pharmacist licenses renew on a fixed statewide cycle with continuing-education requirements, and TDDD facility licenses renew annually. Because a lapsed facility license can force a location to stop dispensing overnight, multi-site operators typically monitor every location’s expiry — exactly the use case our business dashboard was built for.

Frequently asked questions