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LAWS OF MARYLAND

[Ch. 804

nursing care for eligible persons. (2) The Board of
Health and Mental Hygiene shall conduct and operate
[such] hospitals [as may be] established by law and
placed under the jurisdiction of the said Board of Health
and Mental Hygiene for the care of persons suffering from
chronic diseases.

The State Department of Health and the physicians
and pharmacists services subcommittees of the Maryland
medical assistance program advisory committee shall meet
jointly to determine which drugs shall be listed in a
formulary system; and after [such] THE meetings, the
Department shall publish [such] THE formulary, which
shall include those generic drugs having clinical
equivalency. The above subcommittees shall take due
recognition of studies and recommendations of the U.S.
Food and Drug Administration and shall consult with
various schools of pharmacy and [such] ART other medical
and pharmacological experts as it shall deem advisable.

[A reimbursement] THE form [will be] used for
prescribing [all] drugs under the medicaid program in
Maryland [and it] shall include the following statement:
This prescription shall be filled by a generic equivalent
from the State Health Department formulary, unless
checked by the prescribing physician.

Unless the physician indicates otherwise on the
form, it is understood that the generic form of the drug
from the State Health Department formulary will be
utilized in filling the prescription.

THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE MAY
ESTABLISH THE FORM AND METHOD OF APPLICATION FOR
REIMBURSEMENT [[UNER]] UNDER THIS SECTION.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1975.

Approved May 15, 1975.

CHAPTER 805
(House Bill 1476)

AN ACT concerning

St. Mary's County — Home for the Elderly