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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 February 2025
1 February 2025 - The February 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jan 2025
Outcomes from the December 2024 PBAC meeting
31 January 2025 - Recommendations made by the PBAC in December 2024 relating to the listing of medicines on the PBS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jan 2025
Von Hippel-Lindau disease drug Welireg listed on PBS slashing cost by $11,000 a month for patients
28 January 2025 - The treatment for Simon Goodrich’s disease has been costing $12,000 a month, but there has been a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2025
Australians benefit from freeze to maximum cost of PBS medicines
20 January 2025 - The Australian Government has launched an advertising campaign to raise awareness about a freeze on the maximum ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2025
Price must be right to put obesity pill on the PBS
6 January 2025 - Whether to fully subsidise the new generation weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro and Ozempic for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2025
Global pharma giants push for weight loss drugs to be added to PBS
6 January 2025 - Taxpayers would fund popular weight loss drugs for people with severe obesity under a proposal from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2025
Cheaper medicines stay cheaper as Australians save $1.1 billion
2 January 2025 - On 1 January 2025, for the first time in more than 25 years, the maximum amount people ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2025
New and expanded PBS listings for breast and prostate cancer
2 January 2025 - Australians with prostate and breast cancer now have affordable access to affordable new and expanded medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jan 2025
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 January 2025
1 January 2025 - The January 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Dec 2024
Utilisation analysis of heart failure medicines listed on the PBS
20 December 2024 - At its September 2024 meeting, the PBAC considered a report presenting a utilisation analysis of PBS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Dec 2024
Bureaucratic ‘deficiencies’ in medicine funding underscore access crisis
26 December 2024 - The Government’s independent medicine funding assessor, still recovering from a public failure to process months worth ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Dec 2024
PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report (2023-24)
19 December 2024 - The PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Dec 2024
Report on PBS/RPBS under co-payment prescriptions data (2023-24)
19 December 2024 - The Report on Under Co-payment Prescriptions Data (2023-24) is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Dec 2024
Public Summary Documents – September 2024 PBAC meeting
24 December 2024 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the September 2024 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Dec 2024
Update from the PBAC (December 2024)
23 December 2024 - An update from the Chair and Deputy Chair of the PBAC is now available. ...