New pharmacy

As government reimbursements for drugs continue to fall, many independent pharmacies turned to making custom medications for patients in a process called compounding.

That's what John Dobbs did when he and business partner Denny Bauman opened Apothicare360 in Fort Myers in early 2014.

But little did Dobbs and Bauman know that new regulations announced later that year would impact their new business in a significant way. The new regulations that go into effect in July 2017 require pharmacies that make custom medications to build sophisticated laboratories with their own air systems that can cost tens of thousands of dollars.