US Independent Pharmacies
U.S. Location Dataset // 44,134

44,134 independently owned US pharmacies, filtered out of the national provider registry by removing every corporate chain location. Independents are where local buying authority actually sits: the owner is usually the pharmacist, decisions are made in the store rather than at a head office, and the switching costs that lock in chain accounts do not apply. That makes them the primary market for wholesalers competing for primary supplier status, for pharmacy management and point-of-sale software, for compounding, adherence packaging and clinical service programs, and for the buyers consolidating independent pharmacy into regional groups. Franchise-banner stores such as Health Mart and Good Neighbor are flagged rather than excluded, because they are independently owned even though they buy through a program. Every record carries the national provider identifier and the practice address.

All 44,134 records, as published — the complete set rather than a sample. That matters most for coverage and gap questions: put together the same list from partial searches and every location you miss reads as a gap that is not there, so the answer is wrong rather than merely late. Assembling the U.S.-wide coverage by hand also means one query per area against sources that cap what they return per search.