NSW to fund S100 co-pays
September 28, 2015
The NSW government yesterday
announced it would cover the
co-payments for public hospital
patients receiving Section 100
Highly Specialised Drugs and
Section 100 injectible and infusible
chemotherapy medicines.
The move is effective from this
Thu 01 Oct, with state health
minister Jillian Skinner saying it will
save patients an average of $1,400
per year.
She said it was the fulfilment of
an election commitment to people
living with complex illnesses “who
are suffering enough without the
stress of having to fork out for
essential but expensive medication”.
The co-payment will be paid
for eligible patients regardless of
whether prescriptions are filled at
NSW public hospital pharmacies,
NSW community pharmacies or
through pharmacies used by NSW
public hospital oncology clinics.
It will apply to public nonadmitted
patients, outpatients
or day patients, inpatients on
discharge from public hospitals and
privately referred non-admitted
patients of NSW public hospitals.
As well as benefiting people
living with cancer and HIV other
medications covered include those
for schizophrenia, hepatitis, Crohn’s
disease, cystic fibrosis, psoriatic and
rheumatoid arthritis and for organ
and tissue transplants.
Co-payments paid by the NSW
government will count toward
the patient safety net - for more
information on the changes see
www.health.nsw.gov.au.
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