Pharmacy Daily | PSA urges pharmacy items for Medicare

The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia has called for the Medical Benefits Scheme to be expanded to include new items which would allow pharmacists to “help improve consumer health outcomes and quality use of medicines”. Suggestions in the PSA submission to the government’s MBS Review include establishing a Pharmacists in General Practice Incentive Payment, expanding existing services remunerated through Medicare to enable rural and remote Australians to access pharmacists as primary health care providers, and extending the eligibility of MBS remunerated services for the provision of after hours care to include pharmacists. PSA national president Joe Demarte said the review is an opportunity to improve outcomes in the care of patients with chronic diseases and complex care needs, also highlighting the Chronic Disease Management Service which is currently funded through the MBS but is underutilised due to the exclusion of pharmacists as eligible allied health practitioners The full PSA submission can be viewed at www.psa.org.au.

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