HB3651 - Tennessee: Drugs, Pharmacy, Pharmacists, Public Health

Companion Bill SB2755. Pharmacy, Pharmacists - Requires notification on the part of a pharmacist or pharmacy technician to a patient and prescriber before interchanging immunosuppressive drugs for transplant patients. - Amends TCA Title 53 and Title 63. Fiscal Summary for HB3651 / *SB2755Increase State Expenditures - Not Significant Bill Summary for HB3651 / *SB2755 Generally, a pharmacist may substitute a prescribed drug for a less expensive equivalent of that drug. This bill restricts the substitution of one manufacturer's drug for another's in regard to immunosuppressive drugs, when a patient's immunosuppressive therapy is being controlled on a specific drug, strength, dosage form, and dosing regimen from a specific manufacturer. Under this bill, prior to interchanging an immunosuppressive drug, the pharmacist, pharmacy intern, or pharmacy technician [...]

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