PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025

Government expenditure was $19.1 billion for the supply of medicines.

This represents 91.7% of total medicine costs and was up 7.4% from 2023-24.

Patients contributed $1.7 billion to the cost of their subsidised medicines.

This represents 8.3% of total medicine cost.

226 million subsidised prescriptions^[1] were dispensed.

The number of subsidised prescriptions decreased by 0.2% compared to 2023-24.

The average dispensed price^[2] per PBS subsidised prescription was $91.62 (up from$85.10 in 2023-24).

Concession card holders:

• received 196.7 million (87.0%) subsidised prescriptions.
• accounted for $11.5 billion (60.2%) of total Government expenditure on medicine.

Expenditure for this group was up from $10.8 billion (6.1%) in 2023-24.

The average dispensed price for concessional cardholders was $63.04.

The government contributed $58.35 towards the cost of each concession cardholder medicine on average.

General patients:

• received 28.9 million (12.8%) subsidised prescriptions
• accounted for $7.5 billion (39.2%) of Government expenditure on medicine.

Expenditure for this group was up from $6.8 billion (39.2%) in 2023-24.

The average dispensed price for general patients^[3] was $286.08.

The government contributed $258.65 towards the cost of each general patient medicine on average.

949 different medicines were listed on the PBS as at 30 June 2025.

These medicines were spread across 5,164 brands.