March 2024
News
In this issue
| 60 Day Dispensing of PBS Medicines |
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| See you at APP2024! |
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| Reminder: Services Australia PRODA B2B Device expiry |
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| This Month's PBS Changes |
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60 Day Dispensing of PBS Medicines
For general information on 60 day dispensing, please visit https://www.health.gov.au/cheaper-medicines
From 1 March 2024, medicines in stage 2 will have additional PBS Item Codes added to cater for 60 day dispensing.
A list of medications available for 60 day dispensing will be available here https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/60-day-dispensing/pbs-medicines-current-item-codes from 1 March 2024.
How does 60 day dispensing work in Fred Dispense?
When searching for drugs with a prescription date on or after 1 September 2023 or 1 March 2024, you will now see an additional PBS item code.
For example, searching for 'Felodur 10', will now produce two search results instead of one.
You will then select the applicable PBS Item Code based on the quantity on the prescription. This is a process that you will already be familiar with today for drugs that have multiple PBS Item Codes e.g. Nolvadex 20mg Tablets, Clexane 100mg/mL Syringe, Brufen 400mg Tablets
See also: Set NHS/OTC Prices for Different Quantities of an Under Co-Payment NHS Item
See you at APP2024!
We hope you can join us at APP2024 to chat about the latest innovative and practical features to optimise your pharmacy workflows, access clinical intelligence, and deliver patient services.
Find us at Stands 125 -126 (Fred) and 126-127 (MedView)
You can also catch the Fred hosted Business Session, ‘Do we need Artificial Intelligence to serve customers better?’ on Thursday.
When: Thursday, 14 March 2024 - 2.00pm - 2.45pm
Where: Arena 1A
Who: Paul Naismith & Regina Cowie, Fred IT Group
Reminder: Services Australia PRODA B2B Device expiry
To avoid disruption to your Services Australia PBS Online claiming, you’ll need to extend your B2B Device in your PRODA account before it expires.
You’ll need to extend your B2B device with PRODA at least every 6 months.
Fred Dispense will warn you of the impending expiry at the following time intervals:
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30 days from expiry
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14 days from expiry
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Every day from 7 days to the expiry day.
For more information on how to do this, refer to: Managing B2B Devices in PRODA - PRODA (Provider Digital Access) on the Services Australia website or call Services Australia on 1800 700 199.
This Month's PBS Changes
For the full Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits, go to the PBS website at http://www.pbs.gov.au/ where you can search the schedule by drug name.
For your convenience, we've also uploaded a printable summary of this month's important PBS changes to this site.
For Highly Specialised Drugs (HSD) items (CAR and non-CAR), please refer to the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits as well as Services Australia to confirm whether the PBS item code for a HSD is eligible to be dispensed and claimed by your pharmacy type.