45BKeeping documents—medication chart prescriptions

45B Keeping documents—medication chart prescriptions

(1) If a Community Pharmacist supplies a Pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription, the pharmacist is to keep the medication chart, or a copy of the medication chart on which the Community Pharmacist wrote the details mentioned in paragraph 16AA(2)(c) in relation to the prescription, for at least 2 years from the date of supply.

15 Schedule 1 – Incorporated Documents

omit:

The following documents, in force on 1 November 2013, are incorporated-by-reference into the Scheme:

substitute:

The following documents, in the version in which they exist on 1 April 2015, are incorporated-by-reference into the Scheme:

16 Schedule 1 – Incorporated Documents (List A)

insert:

• RPBS Explanatory Notes
• PBS or Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Schedule 2

Variations to the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

1 Part 1 – Interpretation (Section 3)

insert:

“approved hospital” means a hospital in respect of which the hospital authority is approved under section 94 of the National Health Act 1953;

“authority prescription” means:

(a) a prescription of a Pharmaceutical benefit for which Prior Approval under section 6 is required;

(b) an authority prescription as defined in the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960;

“Chief Executive Medicare” has the meaning given by the Human Services (Medicare) Act 1973;

“claims rules” mean the rules, in force from time to time, made under subsections 98AC(4) and 99AAA(8) of the National Health Act 1953;

“dependant”, in relation to a concessional beneficiary, has the meaning given by Part VII of the National Health Act 1953;

“hospital treatment” has the meaning given by section 121‑5 of the Private Health Insurance Act 2007;

“medication chart” has the meaning given by subsection 11B(6);

“MPBS” means the MRCA Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme;

“pharmaceutical item” has the meaning given in Part VII of the National Health Act 1953;

“PBS prescriber” has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the National Health Act 1953;

“PBS prescriber number” means the number given by the Chief Executive Medicare to a person who may prescribe a pharmaceutical benefit under the National Health Act 1953;

“Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits” means all that writing in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for the part “Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits”;

Note: as at 1 September 2014 the part comprised pages 1077-1082.

“residential care service” has the meaning given by the Aged Care Act 1997;

“RPBS Explanatory Notes” means the document forming part of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that is the: RPBS Explanatory Notes – being the version of the document as it exists on the date for the document in Schedule 1;

Note: as at 1 September 2014 the part comprised pages 1079-1082.

2 Part 1 – Interpretation (Section 3)

omit the definition “Approved Hospital Authority”, substitute:

“Approved Hospital Authority” has the meaning given by subsection 84(1) of the National Health Act 1953.

omit the definition “Authority Prescription Form”, substitute:

“Authority Prescription Form” means a prescription in the form, if any, for an “authority prescription” under the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960 in force from time to time;

omit the definition “electronic prescription”, substitute:

“electronic prescription” means a prescription that is prepared and submitted:

(a) in accordance with approved information technology requirements (if any), by means of an approved electronic communication; and
(b) in accordance with the appropriate form under:
(i) sub-subparagraph 19(1)(a)(iia)(B) (prescriptions other than medication chart prescriptions) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960; or

(ii) subregulation 19AA(7) (medication chart prescriptions).of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960.

omit the definition “Explanatory Notes”, substitute:

“Explanatory Notes” means:

(a) the document forming part of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that is: SECTION 1 — EXPLANATORY NOTES; and

Note: as at 1 September 2014 the part comprised pages 25-54.

(b) the document forming part of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that is: the RPBS Explanatory Notes;

Note: as at 1 September 2014 the part comprised pages 1079-1082.

being the version of the document as it exists on the date for the document in Schedule 1.

omit the definition “medication chart prescription”, substitute:

“medication chart prescription” has the meaning given by section 11B;

omit the definition “paper-based prescription”, substitute:

“paper‑based prescription” means a prescription that is prepared in duplicate in accordance with subparagraph 19(1)(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960 in force from time to time.

omit the definition “paperless claim for payment”.

omit the definition, “PBS”, substitute:

“PBS” or “Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme” means the document entitled “ Schedule of Pharmaceutical benefits”, with International Standard Serial Number 1037-3667, being the version of the document as it exists on the date for the document in Schedule 1;

omit the definition “prescription”.

omit the definition “ repeat authorisation form”, substitute:

“repeat authorisation form” means the form mentioned in subparagraph 26(1A)(a)(i) of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960 in force from time to time.

omit the definition “residential medication chart”.

omit the definition “RPBS Schedule”, substitute:

“RPBS Schedule” means the document forming part of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme that is the Repatriation Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits, being the version of the document as it exists on the date for the document in Schedule 1;

omit the definition “streamlined authority code”.

omit the definition “supply certification form”, substitute:

“supply certification form” means the form of that name in the claims rules.

omit the definition “RPBS prescriber”, substitute:

“MPBS prescriber” means an Approved Medical Practitioner, an Authorised Midwife or an Authorised Nurse Practitioner.

3 Part 1 – Interpretation (Section 4)

substitute:

4. Where it is provided for the Department or the Commission to notify of certain matters under the Scheme, the inclusion of the matter in the RPBS Explanatory Notes and publication of the RPBS Explanatory Notes (as part of the publication of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme which includes the RPBS Explanatory Notes) shall be taken to constitute such notification.

4 Heading before section 11B

omit.

5 Section 11B

substitute:

11AA Writing prescriptions-general

A prescription for the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit must be written in accordance with; (a) section 11A (prescriptions other than medication chart prescriptions); or (b) section 11B (medication chart prescriptions). Note: other provisions of the Scheme may also contain requirements for writing of prescriptions.