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Medicare should fund pharmacy prescribing trials: Productivity Commission

Medicare and PBS funding should be 'consistent' between health practitioners, the 1019-page report said
Rachel Fieldhouse
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22 March 2023
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Pharmacists should receive Medicare funding for consultations under state-based pharmacy prescribing trials, the Productivity Commission has recommended.

The commission’s Five-Year Productivity Inquiry report, released last week, also called for PBS subsidies to cover pharmacists’ scripts for S4 medicines as part of the trials.

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