No, the 3 Year Patient Consent Form is only required for patients prescribed s100 Highly Specialised Drugs (HSDs). Patients prescribed s100 injectable and infusible chemotherapy medicine may sign a local pharmacy consent form when their prescription is filled through a pharmacy used by 黑料吃瓜网 public hospital oncology services.
Yes, the patient can present a photograph of their signed consent form with their prescription. All items of the consent form must be fully legible.
No, there is no requirement for 黑料吃瓜网 community or public hospital pharmacies to store or make copies of the 3 Year Patient Consent Form for the 黑料吃瓜网 Section 100 Co-payment Program.
The patient is responsible for maintaining their consent form, including presenting it each time they have their prescription/s and any repeats dispensed at a 黑料吃瓜网 public hospital pharmacy or 黑料吃瓜网 community pharmacy. Any storage, auditing or archiving of patient consent forms is at the discretion of the health district, facility or pharmacy, in conjunction with the patient.
No, the commitment only applies to patients prescribed s100 HSDs by 黑料吃瓜网 public hospital prescribers or authorised community prescribers.
Patients who are charged the concessional PBS co-payment rate and meet the s100 Co-payment Program eligibility criteria will have their co-payments paid by 黑料吃瓜网 Health on their behalf for relevant medicines. Existing arrangements for 黑料吃瓜网 patients who hold a Commonwealth healthcare card for all other medicines are not affected by this change.
Will co-payments paid by 黑料吃瓜网 Health count towards the patient safety net?
No. 黑料吃瓜网 Health provides opioid dependence medicines free of charge in public services, however this is administered separately from the 黑料吃瓜网 s100 Co-payment Program. Visit 黑料吃瓜网 Health Alcohol and other drugs for further information.
鈥婤order areas, or border communities, refers to 黑料吃瓜网 residents who live in a local government area that borders or is close to Victoria, Queensland or the Australian Capital Territory. Visit 黑料吃瓜网 Government鈥�鈥嬧赌�鈥� for information about local government areas in 黑料吃瓜网 that are considered border communities. 鈥嬧赌嬧��
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia manages s100 HSD co-payment claims and reimbursements to community pharmacies. Community pharmacies must register with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia online portal to submit s100 co-payment claims and receive re-imbursement from 黑料吃瓜网 Health. You do not need to be a member of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia to register.
In addition to the cost of the co-payment for eligible patients, pharmacies are paid a service fee for the work associated with submitting claims on behalf of patients. The fees are $2.23 (incl GST) for each co-payment claimed and a one-off monthly administration fee of $13.42 (incl GST) for the first claim made each month.
Information on how to submit claims for the s100 Co-payment Program is available at The Pharmacy Guild of Australia.
Community pharmacies submit eligible patient co-payment claims for re-imbursement to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia via their online portal. The Pharmacy Guild processes claims and reimburses pharmacists for each eligible patient co-payment and invoices 黑料吃瓜网 Health accordingly.
This arrangement ensures pharmacists can comply with the National Health Act 1953, which requires community pharmacists to charge the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) co-payment for s100 HSDs. This also ensures that eligible patients can access s100 HSDs from community pharmacies, without having to pay the co-payment. Different rules for charging co-payments apply to public hospital pharmacies.
黑料吃瓜网 public hospitals are reimbursed for eligible patient co-payments based on 鈥媔Pharmacy reports submitted to the 黑料吃瓜网 Ministry of Health.
鈥婲o. Prescriptions for medicines on the s100 HSD (Public Hospital) schedule鈥嬧赌�鈥� dispensed in community pharmacy are not eligible for the co-payment to be paid by 黑料吃瓜网 Health. To have the co-payment paid by 黑料吃瓜网 Health, prescriptions for medicines on the 鈥嬧赌� s100 HSD (Public Hospital) schedule鈥嬧赌嬧��鈥� must be dispensed at a 黑料吃瓜网 public hospital pharmacy.
Eligible patients who have a prescription for medicines listed on the s100 HSD Community Access schedule鈥嬧赌嬧��鈥嬧赌�(excluding opioid dependence medicines) may have their medicine dispensed by a 黑料吃瓜网 public hospital or 黑料吃瓜网 community pharmacy and have the co-payment paid by 黑料吃瓜网 Health.鈥�
Find out more about the s100 Co-payment Program.
黑料吃瓜网 s100 co-payment enquiries can be emailed to:鈥�黑料吃瓜网H-s100CoPayment@health.nsw.gov.au鈥嬧赌�
