[Pricing] AU pharmacy pricing, six months, three states
AU pharmacy pricing, six months, three states. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Pharmacy-level availability and national supply are different questions: a pharmacy can be out while the wholesaler is not, and the pharmacist can check in minutes.
Personal importation provisions exist, are narrow, and carry conditions. Any summary of them here should be checked against the current official wording rather than a forum post.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Where to look instead of asking, which will nearly always be faster.
The national shortage database is public, searchable and carries expected resolution dates. The subsidy criteria for each indication are published. Your pharmacist can check wholesaler availability in a few minutes, which is a different question from what is on the shelf.
Between those three, most questions on this board are answerable in half an hour with primary sources. The board is genuinely useful for experience, pricing comparison and the parts that are not written down anywhere — it is a poor substitute for a document that exists.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
Pharmacy staff name removed; the pharmacy itself can stay in a pricing post.
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
Pharmacy staff name removed; the pharmacy itself can stay in a pricing post.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
Yes — importing US threads into an Australian question produces confident nonsense every single time.
Right, and the compounded supply position moved. Threads from two years ago are describing a different situation.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
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