[Question] compounding — what am I missing here
compounding — 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.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
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.
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
Australia or New Zealand?
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Pharmacy staff name removed; the pharmacy itself can stay in a pricing post.
Pharmacy staff name removed; the pharmacy itself can stay in a pricing post.
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
ask the pharmacy to check the wholesaler rather than guessing
keep the script and the receipt for private health claims
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
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