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PB 70 of 2025

 

National Health (Additional Community Supply Support Payment) Amendment Determination 2025

The Pharmaceutical Benefits Remuneration Tribunal makes the following determination.

Dated 18 June 2025


Judith Wright
Chairperson
for and on behalf of the
Pharmaceutical Benefits Remuneration Tribunal

 

 

 

 

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Additional Community Supply Support Payment) Determination 2024

Schedule 2—Amendments

National Health (Additional Community Supply Support Payment) Determination 2024

 

  1.     This instrument is the National Health (Additional Community Supply Support Payment) Amendment Determination 2025.
  2.     This instrument may also be cited as PB 70 of 2025.

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table

The day after this instrument is registered.

 

2.  Schedule 1

1 July 2025.

1 July 2025

3.  Schedule 2

1 October 2025.

1 October 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

  This instrument is made under paragraph 98B(1)(b) of the National Health Act 1953.

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

1  Subsection 6(1)

Repeal the subsection (not including the note), substitute:

 (1) For the purposes of subparagraph 98B(1)(b)(ii) of the Act, the amount of the ACSS payment for each ACSS eligible supply is:

 (a) if paragraph (b) of this subsection does not apply—$1.57; or

 (b) if subsection (2) or (3) of this section applies to the supply—the sum of:

 (i) the amount mentioned in paragraph (a) of this subsection; and

 (ii) $4.91.

1  Paragraph 5(a)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (a)  the National Health (Botulinum Toxin Program) Special Arrangement 2025;

2  Paragraph 5(c)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (c)  the National Health (Growth Hormone Program) Special Arrangement 2025;

3  Paragraph 5(e)

Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

 (e)  the National Health (IVF Program) Special Arrangement 2025;