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2011 Vermont Code
Title 18 Health
Chapter 91 PRESCRIPTION DRUG COST CONTAINMENT
§ 4606 Brand certification


18 VT Stats § 4606. (2011 through Adj Sess) What's This?

§ 4606. Brand certification

If the prescriber has determined that the generic equivalent of a drug being prescribed has not been effective or with reasonable certainty is not expected to be effective in treating the patient's medical condition or causes or is reasonably expected to cause adverse or harmful reactions in the patient, the prescriber shall indicate "brand necessary," "no substitution," "dispense as written," or "DAW" in the prescriber's own handwriting on the prescription blank and the pharmacist shall not substitute the generic equivalent. If a prescription is unwritten and the prescriber has determined that the generic equivalent of the drug being prescribed has not been effective or with reasonable certainty is not expected to be effective in treating the patient's medical condition or causes or is reasonably expected to cause adverse or harmful reactions in the patient, the prescriber shall expressly indicate to the pharmacist that the brand-name drug is necessary and substitution is not allow

ed and the pharmacist shall not substitute the generic equivalent. (Added 1977, No. 127 (Adj. Sess.), { 1; amended 2001, No. 63, { 124; 2009, No. 103 (Adj. Sess.), { 4.)

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