[Question] NZ unfunded means full price. is anyone actually paying that.
The title is the whole question — NZ unfunded means full price. is anyone actually paying that — but here is why I am asking.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
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.
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.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
Yes — importing US threads into an Australian question produces confident nonsense every single time.
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.
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.
Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.
Registration by the therapeutic goods regulator establishes that a product may be supplied.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority. They are searchable and most people never look.
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority.
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
a streamlined authority code is not the same as a general listing
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