Reminder to prescribing providers, per Texas law, to "prohibit the substitution of a generically equivalent drug or interchangeable biological product for a brand name drug product." The practitioner must write across the face of the written prescription, in the practitioner’s own handwriting, the phrase 'brand necessary' or 'brand medically necessary,' according to Texas Administrative Code Part 15 Chapter 309.3.

Text will be updated at the bottom of prescriptions reflecting this law stating, "Texas law mandates that a generically equivalent drug product may be dispensed unless the practitioner hand-writes the words ‘Brand Necessary’ or ‘Brand Medically Necessary’ on the face of the prescription.”