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Review of discount rate in the PBAC Guidelines
25 May 2022 - The Commonwealth has entered into a new Strategic Agreement in relation to reimbursement, health technology assessment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Apr 2022
Consultation now open - review of base case discount rate at 3A.1 of the PBAC Guidelines
5 April 2022 - The Commonwealth has entered into a new Strategic Agreement in relation to reimbursement, health technology assessment ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2021
Updates to the procedure guidance for listing medicines on the PBS
15 October 2021 - The Department has updated Section 5.8 New brand of existing pharmaceutical item submissions (not requiring PBAC consideration) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2021
Updated financial estimates workbook
6 August 2021 - An updated version of the Utilisation and Cost Model workbook is now available to support PBAC submissions. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Apr 2020
Procedure Guidance for standardised redactions to PBAC Public Summary Documents
30 April 2020 - The PBAC has indicated its preference for greater transparency to be introduced in PSDs through a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Mar 2020
Updated Financial Estimates workbook and manual
30 March 2020 - An updated version of the Utilisation and Cost Model workbook and a user manual are now available ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Mar 2019
PBAC report - Options for listing PD-(L)1 checkpoint inhibitors for multiple cancer indications on the PBS
22 March 2019 - The PBAC Report to the Minister for Health on “Options for listing PD(L)-1 checkpoint inhibitors for multiple ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Oct 2018
Model structuring for economic evaluations of new health technologies
17 October 2018 - In countries such as Australia, the UK and Canada, decisions on whether to fund new health technologies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 May 2018
New melanoma guidelines recommend $150,000 a year treatment that’s not subsidised
25 May 2018 - Sweeping changes to medical guidelines for melanoma could halve the rate at which the cancer recurs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Dec 2016
Manual of resource items and their associated unit costs
21 December 2016 - The PBAC has endorsed version 5.0 of the Manual of resource items and their associated unit ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Nov 2016
Utilisation and cost model workbook to accompany PBAC Guidelines
29 November 2016 - A utilisation and cost model workbook has been developed to accompany the Pharmaceutical Benefit Advisory Committee ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2016
PBAC Guidelines
12 October 2016 - The PBAC has endorsed version 5.0 of their guidelines. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2016
PBAC Guidelines review
29 September 2016 - The Department is arranging education workshops for industry organisations who will be making a PBAC submission using ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2016
Proposed new drug guidelines for the PBS put cost-cutting before patients
17 August 2016 - The sustained accessibility of Australians to world-class medicines will be in question if proposed drug review guidelines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Aug 2016
PBAC Guidelines review update
5 August 2016 - The PBAC Guidelines Review is anticipated to be completed by November 2016. ...