Part 5 - Payments to Community Pharmacists
Dispensing fee payable to Community Pharmacists
26. The dispensing fee payable to Community Pharmacists (excluding Approved Medical Practitioners and Approved Hospital Authorities) for the supply by them, under this Scheme, of Pharmaceutical Benefits in the form of ready prepared items or of extemporaneously prepared items, shall be the fee payable to pharmacists under the PBS for the supply by them of a pharmaceutical benefit of similar form.
Dispensing fee payable to Approved Medical Practitioners and Approved Hospital Authorities
27. The dispensing fee payable to Approved Medical Practitioners and Approved Hospital Authorities for the supply by them, under this Scheme, of Pharmaceutical Benefits, in the form of ready prepared items or of extemporaneously prepared items, shall be the fee payable to Approved Medical Practitioners or Approved Hospital Authorities, under the PBS for the supply by them of a pharmaceutical benefit of similar form.
Other Fees - similar PBS pharmaceutical benefit
28. Where a Pharmaceutical Benefit is provided which is not covered by paragraphs 26 or 27, payment is to be made in accordance with the fee payable under the PBS for provision of a similar pharmaceutical benefit.
29. Where a Pharmaceutical Benefit is provided which is not covered by paragraphs 25, 26 or 27, payment is to be made in accordance with such conditions and at such rates as the Department or the Commission from time to time notifies.
Fees not payable in some circumstances
30. The fees payable under paragraphs 26, 27, 28 or 29, may not be payable to a Community Pharmacist where that person does not satisfy the requirements of paragraph 19 and supplies Pharmaceutical Benefits to an ineligible person.
Community Pharmacist not entitled to demand or receive payments
31. A Community Pharmacist is not entitled to demand of, or receive from, a person in receipt of a Pharmaceutical Benefit, payment in money or a valuable consideration for goods and services rendered under this Scheme except:
(a) for goods or services that are provided in an emergency; or
(b) for payment of an after-hours fee; or
(c) for payment for packaging material, postage or freight; or
(d) for payment that represents the required payment under the PBS of the price difference between the drug prescribed and supplied and the lowest priced brand of the same drug listed on the PBS Schedule; or
(e) where payment represents the difference between the Commonwealth's financial responsibility for the provision of the Pharmaceutical Benefit and the dispensed price of the Pharmaceutical Benefit supplied.
Community Pharmacist to issue receipt where certain payments received
32. Where a payment is received, under any of subparagraphs 33(a), (b), (c) or (d), from a person in receipt of a Pharmaceutical Benefit, the Community Pharmacist is required to issue that person an official receipt which states:
(a) the goods and/or services provided; and
(b) the date of receipt of those goods and/or services by the person.
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