Sec. 562.008. GENERIC EQUIVALENT AUTHORIZED

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(a) If a practitioner certifies on the prescription form that a specific prescribed brand is medically necessary, the pharmacist shall dispense the drug as written by the practitioner. The certification must be made as required by the dispensing directive adopted under Section 562.015. This subchapter does not permit a pharmacist to substitute a generically equivalent drug unless the substitution is made as provided by this subchapter.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by this subchapter, a pharmacist who receives a prescription for a drug for which there is one or more generic equivalents may dispense any of the generic equivalents.

Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1999. Amended by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1254, Sec. 6, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.

                    
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