THE collection of under co-payment prescription data for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) commenced on 01 Apr 2012, and in the period 01 Jul 2016 to 30 Jun 2017, approximately 85 million under co-payment prescriptions were supplied.
The PBS says the data on this is of a high quality, and it is now available at pbs.gov.au.
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