[PBS] listing status and what it actually does to out-of-pocket
listing status and what it actually does to out-of-pocket — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.
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.
The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached. It is public, searchable, and consistently more accurate than reporting about it.
Registration by the therapeutic goods regulator establishes that a product may be supplied. Subsidy listing is a separate decision about public funding, with its own criteria and its own timetable.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
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.
PBS criteria are published and searchable
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
Are you quoting advice from before the compounded arrangements changed?
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
sten_bhattacharya is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.