help me understand PBS, I have read the wiki twice
help me understand PBS, I have read the wiki twice, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
The two decisions that this whole board turns on, kept apart.
Registration means a product may lawfully be supplied. Subsidy listing means the public system will fund it, for a defined indication, against published criteria. They are made by different bodies on different timetables, and a product can be registered and unsubsidised for a given use for a long time.
Almost every "why can I not get this" thread here is really a question about the second decision being answered with facts about the first. Say which one you are asking about and the thread resolves in two replies.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
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
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
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the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
Not convinced. That is the New Zealand position and the thread is asking about Australia.
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
the Medsafe position in New Zealand is its own thing entirely
Right, and the compounded supply position moved. Threads from two years ago are describing a different situation.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Yes — importing US threads into an Australian question produces confident nonsense every single time.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
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