New Zealand: shortage, and what it actually costs here
New Zealand: shortage, and what it actually costs here. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
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.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
PBS criteria are published and searchable
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.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
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.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
keep the script and the receipt for private health claims
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
ask the pharmacy to check the wholesaler rather than guessing
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
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