16Extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefits

16 Extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefits

(1) For an extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit supplied to a patient receiving treatment in or at a private hospital for which the hospital authority is approved, the dispensed price is the Commonwealth price determined for the benefit under the Approved Pharmacists Determination, as if the benefit was supplied by an approved pharmacist. (2) The amount payable to the approved hospital authority for the supply of an extemporaneously‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit to the patient is the amount by which the dispensed price for the benefit exceeds the patient co‑payment. (3) For a person to whom, at the time that the benefit is supplied, subsection 87(5A) of the Act applies, the amount of the patient co‑payment is zero.