[Question] PBS — what am I missing here
PBS — what am I missing here. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
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Yes — the shortage database is the source. The news coverage of it is downstream and usually a week behind.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority. They are searchable and most people never look.
keep the script and the receipt for private health claims
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Are you quoting advice from before the compounded arrangements changed?
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.
Agreed.
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
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