Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00314:reg:6:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00314
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 6 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 9923–12780

section is, for the purposes of the Regulations (other than section 61) and the Rules, taken, to be a medication chart prescription written in accordance with section 41 of the Regulations.

Prescription in paper‑based form is not required
 (7) The PBS prescriber is not required to also provide the prescription in paper‑based form.

9 Supply of pharmaceutical benefits
 (1) An approved supplier may supply a pharmaceutical benefit under this Special Arrangement to a person receiving residential care in a residential care service if the prescription for the pharmaceutical benefit was made available to the approved supplier, before the pharmaceutical benefit is supplied, through:
 (a) a transitional conformant electronic medication order chart system; or
 (b) subject to subsection (2), a non‑conformant electronic medication order chart system.
 (2) If:
 (a) the prescription for the pharmaceutical benefit is for a person receiving residential care at a residential care service specified in column 1 of an item in the table in Schedule 1 (the relevant item); and
 (b) the prescription was made available to the approved supplier through a non‑conformant electronic medication order chart system;
the approved supplier may supply the pharmaceutical benefit to the person under this Special Arrangement only if the approved supplier is specified in column 2 of the relevant item.
 (3) Sections 45, 47 and 51 of the Regulations apply to the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit by an approved supplier under this Special Arrangement, with the following modifications:
 (a) a reference to a medication chart prescription is taken to be a reference to an electronic medication order;
 (b) section 45 applies as if:
 (i) it required the approved supplier, or a person authorised for the purpose by the approved supplier, to verify in the electronic medication order that the pharmaceutical benefit has been supplied and the date on which it was supplied; and
 (ii) paragraph 45(2)(c) were omitted;
 (c) a reference in section 51 to writing "immediate supply necessary" on the prescription is taken to be a reference to including those words in the electronic medication order.

10 Claims for supply of pharmaceutical benefit

       (1) An approved supplier may make a claim for payment for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit under this Special Arrangement in accordance with the Rules, as modified by this section.

       (2) Where a claim for payment for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit of a kind mentioned in subsection (3) is made, for item 25 of the table in clause 1 of Schedule 1 to the Rules, the Patient Category details for a patient in the Residential aged care facility patient (medication chart prescription) category are 0 (zero).

       (3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the kind of supply of a pharmaceutical benefit is