Savings in price to be passed on to purchaser.

Unless the brand name drug is requested by the patient or the patient's representative, the pharmacist shall substitute an equivalent drug product which he has in stock if its wholesale price to the pharmacist is less than the wholesale price of the prescribed drug product, and at least sixty percent of the savings shall be passed on to the purchaser.

[1986 c 52 § 2; 1979 c 110 § 3; 1977 ex.s. c 352 § 4.]