THE Commonwealth Department of Health has moved to alleviate issues with the new arrangements for the Closing the Gap (CTG) Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Relief Program, granting a grace period to honour existing prescriptions and repeats until 30 Sep.
The move follows widespread chaos experienced by pharmacists across the country, following the implementation of changes from 01 Jul (PD 07 Jul).
Until the grace period is implemented, pharmacies will receive a PBS Online code 810 rejection if they try to dispense a prescription as CTG for a person who is not on the Services Australia CTG Register.
For urgent access, the prescriber should be contacted and requested to register the patient as CTG.
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