Pharmacy Daily | Closing the Gap

Pharmacists are reminded that the Closing the Gap (CTG) PBS Co-payment Measure commenced 1 July 2010. Under these arrangements, eligible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients are able to receive their Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) medicines at a lower cost. Eligible concessional and repatriation patients are not charged a co-payment (other than any mandatory charges such as brand premiums) and non-concessional patients are charged the concessional rate for each PBS item (plus mandatory charges). A CTG prescription can be either manually annotated with CTG and the doctor’s initials or signature, or automated with CTG### (eg. CTG82K). Please note that computergenerated prescriptions can be hand annotated and will be honoured by Medicare Australia. All PBS medicines are covered under this measure. Your dispensing software provider should have updated your software to accommodate these arrangements. The PBS Co-payment Measure: Pharmacy staff resource booklet and poster was sent to all pharmacies. Please refer to this pack for further information. For all CTG PBS Co-payment Measure queries, please call 02 6289 2409, email pbsindigenous@ health.gov.au or visit www.health.gov.au/ tackling-chronic-disease.

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