A couple weeks ago, Oregon passed a law that allows pharmacists to automatically substitute a biosimilar for the reference branded biologic. According to this new legislation, before a biosimilar can be automatically substituted, it must be approved by the FDA as an “interchangeable” biosimilar, and the prescriber must not have…
On Tuesday, Chris Christie, Governor of New Jersey, signed an automatic substitution bill into law that would allow pharmacists to substitute a biological product that has been determined by FDA to be “interchangeable with” or “therapeutically equivalent to” a prescribed biological product unless the prescriber indicated that there should be…