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PB 41 of 2022

 

National Health (Price and Special Patient Contribution) Amendment Determination 2022 (No. 4)

I, Caroline Turnour, Acting Assistant Secretary, Pricing and PBS Policy Branch, Technology Assessment and Access Division, Department of Health, delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following Determination.

Dated          28 April 2022   

CAROLINE TURNOUR

Acting Assistant Secretary

Pricing and PBS Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health

 

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Price and Special Patient Contribution) Determination 2021 (PB 35 of 2021)

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the National Health (Price and Special Patient Contribution) Amendment Determination 2022 (No. 4).

  This instrument may also be cited as PB 41 of 2022.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

1 May 2022

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 85B of the National Health Act 1953.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Price and Special Patient Contribution) Determination 2021 (PB 35 of 2021)

  1. Schedule 1, entry for Metoprolol

Omit

Metoprolol

Tablet containing metoprolol tartrate 50 mg

Oral

Betaloc

100

1.77

11.52

 

 

 

Lopresor 50

100

1.77

3.44

 

Tablet containing metoprolol tartrate 100 mg

Oral

Betaloc

60

2.26

12.02

 

 

 

Lopresor 100

60

2.26

3.93

Substitute

Metoprolol

Tablet containing metoprolol tartrate 50 mg

Oral

Betaloc

100

1.77

11.52

 

Tablet containing metoprolol tartrate 100 mg

Oral

Betaloc

60

2.26

12.02

2.     Schedule 1, entry for Simvastatin

Omit

Simvastatin

Tablet 10 mg

Oral

Lipex 10

30

1.04

6.00

 

 

 

Zocor

30

1.04

6.00

 

Tablet 20 mg

Oral

Lipex 20

30

1.51

10.16

 

 

 

Zocor

30

1.51

10.16

 

Tablet 40 mg

Oral

Lipex 40

30

2.17

10.77

 

 

 

Zocor

30

2.17

10.77

 

 

Substitute

Simvastatin

Tablet 20 mg

Oral

Lipex 20

30

1.51

10.16

 

 

 

Zocor

30

1.51

10.16

 

Tablet 40 mg

Oral

Lipex 40

30

2.17

10.77

 

 

 

Zocor

30

2.17

10.77