Explanatory Notes

Front Matter

• Fees, Patient Contributions and Safety Net Thresholds
• Summary of Changes

Section 1 – Explanatory Notes

This collection of explanatory notes contains information on:

• Introduction
• 01. Where To Find What
• 02. Prescribing Medicine – Information for PBS Prescribers
• 03. Supplying Medicine – What Pharmacists Need To Know
• 04. Patient Charges
• 05. The Safety Net Scheme
• 06. Medicare Australia Entitlement Checks
• 07. How Pharmacists Claim Reimbursement: Information Required
• 08. How Pharmacists Claim Reimbursement: Documents to be Submitted
• 09. Pricing PBS Prescriptions
• 10. Miscellaneous
• 11. Nurse Practitioner explanatory notes
• 12. Midwife Explanatory Notes

Section 2 – Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits

This collection of explanatory notes contains information on:

• Symbols used in the Schedule
• Special Patient Contributions
• Pharmaceutical Benefits for Palliative Care
• Section 100 – Items Available under Special Arrangement
• Section 100 – Highly Specialised Drugs Program
• Section 100 – Opiate Addiction Treatment
• Section 100 – Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy
• General statement for Lipid-lowering drugs prescribed as Pharmaceutical Benefits

Section 3 – Standard Packs and Prices

This collection of explanatory notes contains information on:

• Container Prices, Fees, Standard Packs and Prices for Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits
• Standard Packs and Prices for Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits - Emergency Drug Items
• Standard Packs and Prices for Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits - Special Pharmaceutical Benefits
• Standard Packs and Prices for Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits - General Pharmaceutical Benefits
• Standard Packs and Prices for Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits - Palliative care
• Standard Packs and Prices for Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits - Dental
• Standard Packs and Prices for Ready Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits - Optometrical

Section 4 – Extemporaneously-Prepared Pharmaceutical Benefits

This collection of explanatory notes contains information on:

• Drug Tariff
• Container Prices
• Standard Formula Preparations
• Table of Codes, Quantities, Repeats

RPBS Explanatory Notes

This collection of explanatory notes contains information on:

• Beneficiaries
• RPBS Explanatory Notes
• RPBS Department Veterans Affairs
• Summary Of Changes – RPBS
• RPBS Wound Assessment and Dressing Identification

Price Premium Explanatory Notes

This collection of explanatory notes contains information on:

• Therapeutic group premium policy
• Brand premium policy
• Special Patient Contributions

Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy – Section 100 Arrangements

• Explanatory Notes