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PB 144 of 2024

National Health (Price and Special Patient Contribution) Amendment Determination 2024 (No. 11)

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

Dated   19   December 2024

EDEN SIMON

Acting Assistant Secretary

Pricing and PBS Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health and Aged Care

Contents

1  Name...................................................1

2  Commencement............................................1

3  Authority................................................1

4  Schedules................................................1

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

National Health (Price and Special Patient Contribution) Determination 2022 (PB 98 of 2022) 2

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the National Health (Price and Special Patient Contribution) Amendment Determination 2024 (No. 11).

  This instrument may also be cited as PB 144 of 2024.

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 January 2025

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 2022 (PB 98 of 2022)

  1.                  Schedule 1 – omit entry for Clonazepam

 

  1.                  Schedule 1 – omit entry for Duloxetine

 

  1.                  Schedule 1 – entry for Esomeprazole

Omit

Esomeprazole

Tablet (enteric coated) 20 mg (as magnesium trihydrate)

Oral

Nexium

30

4.00

10.51

 

Tablet (enteric coated) 40 mg (as magnesium trihydrate)

Oral

Nexium

30

6.79

13.30

Insert

Esomeprazole

Tablet (enteric coated) 20 mg (as magnesium)

Oral

Nexium

30

4.00

10.51

 

Tablet (enteric coated) 40 mg (as magnesium)

Oral

Nexium

30

6.79

13.30

  1.                  Schedule 1 – omit entry for Fluoxetine

 

  1.                  Schedule 1 – omit entry for Hypromellose

 

  1.                  Schedule 1 – omit entry for Nortriptyline