why does nobody talk about shortage
why does nobody talk about shortage. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
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
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
a streamlined authority code is not the same as a general listing
Yes — the shortage database is the source. The news coverage of it is downstream and usually a week behind.
Same. Private pricing varies here as much as anywhere and people assume it is fixed.
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.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Same.
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
PBS-subsidised or private script?
PBS criteria are published and searchable
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
lane_watcher is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
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