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Delaware News: Prescription Form
Published in the September 2009 Delaware State Board of Pharmacy Newsletter
The Board is still seeing noncompliant prescriptions written by Delaware practitioners. As you are aware, on June 20, 2002, House Bill 522 was signed into law. This law changed the requirements of the prescription form. 24 Del. C. §2549(c) now requires that every prescription written in Delaware by a person authorized to prescribe drugs and licensed in this state shall be on a prescription form containing a line for the prescriber’s signature. Alongside or beneath the line shall be clearly printed the words, “Substitution Permitted.” Beneath the signature line shall be clearly printed the statement, “In order for a brand name product to be dispensed, the prescriber must hand write ‘Brand Necessary’ or ‘Brand Medically Necessary’ in the space below.” Beneath the statement shall be a second line to accommodate the above-mentioned wording. Prescription forms containing the appropriate signature line and statement shall be used by every prescriber of prescription drugs.
