[Meta] proposal — a flair for compounding posts
proposal — a flair for compounding posts. Disagreement welcome, but bring a concrete alternative wording.
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
Pharmacy-level availability and national supply are different questions: a pharmacy can be out while the wholesaler is not, and the pharmacist can check in minutes.
Personal importation provisions exist, are narrow, and carry conditions. Any summary of them here should be checked against the current official wording rather than a forum post.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Right, and the compounded supply position moved. Threads from two years ago are describing a different situation.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Australia or New Zealand?
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
PBS criteria are published and searchable
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Same. Private pricing varies here as much as anywhere and people assume it is fixed.
Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority. They are searchable and most people never look.
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