{"id":2594,"date":"2019-05-01T16:07:03","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2019-05-01T16:07:03","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T16:07:03","slug":"new-medicines-listed-on-the-pbs-from-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/new-medicines-listed-on-the-pbs-from-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New Medicines Listed on the PBS From Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today the Morrison Government will make available new medicines available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) saving patients and their family\u2019s up to $150,000 a year.<br \/>\nBy keeping our economy strong the Morrison Government is listing all new medicines on the PBS following the advice of the medical experts.<br \/>\nThese listings on the PBS change and improve lives. They reduce the burden of expensive medicines, saving patients and families money.<br \/>\nNew medicines from 1 May 2019 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bavencio\u00ae for metastatic merkel cell carcinoma (rare skin cancer), which would normally cost $150,000 per year for a course of treatment without subsidy<\/li>\n<li>Besponsa\u00ae for acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (blood cancer), which would normally cost $120,500 per course of treatment without subsidy<\/li>\n<li>Ibrance\u00ae for advanced and metastatic breast cancer, which would normally cost $55,000 per year for a course of treatment without subsidy<\/li>\n<li>Vimpat\u00ae for the treatment of intractable partial epileptic seizures for children aged four to 15 years, which would normally cost $4,700 per year without subsidy<\/li>\n<li>Xeljanz\u00ae for the treatment of patients with psoriatic arthritis, which would normally cost $16,500 per year without subsidy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Patients will now be able to access these medicines for just $40.30 per script, or $6.50 with a concession card.<br \/>\nAll were recommended by the independent medical experts at the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee.<br \/>\nSince 2013, the Morrison Government has listed over 2,000 new or amended items on the PBS. This represents an average of around 31 listings per month \u2013 or one each day \u2013 at an overall cost of around $10.6 billion.<br \/>\nWe are listing all medicines on the PBS unlike the former Labor Government.<br \/>\nIn 2011 when the current leader of the opposition Bill Shorten was Assistant Treasurer Labor took the unprecedented step of stopping the listing of new medicines on the PBS.<br \/>\nLabor\u2019s 2011-12 Budget stated \u201cgiven the current fiscal environment the listing of some medicines would be deferred until fiscal circumstances permit\u201d. This included medicines for asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, endometriosis chronic pain and IVF amongst others.<br \/>\nOur commitment to ensuring that Australians can access affordable medicines, when they need them, remains rock solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today the Morrison Government will make available new medicines available on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) saving patients and their family\u2019s up to $150,000 a year. By keeping our economy strong the Morrison Government is listing all new medicines on the PBS following the advice of the medical experts. These listings on the PBS &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/05\/01\/new-medicines-listed-on-the-pbs-from-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Medicines Listed on the PBS From Today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}