[Discussion] the PBS advice in here is 3 years out of date
the PBS advice in here is 3 years out of date, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.
Hard numbers: 3 years. Anything softer than that is flagged as an impression.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
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.
Are you quoting advice from before the compounded arrangements changed?
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.