2011 California Code
Labor Code
DIVISION 4. WORKERS' COMPENSATION AND INSURANCE [3200 - 6002]
ARTICLE 2. Medical and Hospital Treatment
Section 4600.1
(a) Subject to subdivision (b), any person or entity that dispenses medicines and medical supplies, as required by Section 4600, shall dispense the generic drug equivalent.
(b) A person or entity shall not be required to dispense a generic drug equivalent under either of the following circumstances:
(1) When a generic drug equivalent is unavailable.
(2) When the prescribing physician specifically provides in writing that a nongeneric drug must be dispensed.
(c) For purposes of this section, dispense has the same meaning as the definition contained in Section 4024 of the Business and Professions Code.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to preclude a prescribing physician, who is also the dispensing physician, from dispensing a generic drug equivalent.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 2003, Ch. 639, Sec. 24. Effective January 1, 2004.)
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