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paragraph 85A(2)(a) of the Act

8 Supply and Claiming of Pharmaceutical Benefits

       (1)     This Special Arrangement applies to the supply of pharmaceutical benefits by an approved supplier to an in-patient of the hospital specified in Column 1 of the same item as the approved supplier in the Schedule.

       (2) The approved supplier will supply pharmaceutical benefits to in-patients as if medication charts were original prescriptions, provided that:

          (a)     where a medication chart contains a direction to supply more than one pharmaceutical benefit, the approved supplier must not, pursuant to regulation 53 of the Regulations, defer the supply of one or more of the benefits; and

          (b)     instead of the requirements of regulation 57 of the Regulations, the approved supplier or a person authorised for the purpose by the approved supplier, writes on the medication chart that the pharmaceutical benefit has been supplied and the date on which it was supplied, and signs his or her name.

       (3)     An approved supplier must:

         (a)   prepare an electronic pharmacy record in respect of each medication chart where a pharmaceutical benefit has been supplied to an in-patient  of the hospital for which a claim is made under section 99AAA of the Act; and

         (b)   retain the electronic pharmacy record for not less than two years after the day on which the pharmaceutical benefit was supplied.

       (4)     Subject to subsection (5), the electronic pharmacy record must contain all information required to be included in a prescription record by Schedule 1 to the Rules for an online claim.

       (5)     For the purposes of this Special Arrangement, a prescription record referred to in subsection (4) is exempt from Items 16, 19 and 19A in Schedule 1 to the Rules.

       (6)     Subject to subsection (8), a claim by an approved supplier in respect of pharmaceutical benefits supplied to an in-patient of the hospital may be furnished unaccompanied by the medication charts in respect of which pharmaceutical benefits have been supplied to the in-patient.

       (7)     If the Secretary notifies a hospital that a copy of all or any of the electronic pharmacy records in respect of pharmaceutical benefits supplied to an in-patient is required to be submitted, the approved supplier shall submit a copy of each such electronic pharmacy record to the Department of Health.

       (8)     If the Secretary notifies a hospital that a copy of all or any of the medication charts in respect of pharmaceutical benefits supplied to in-patients of the hospital is required to be submitted, the hospital shall submit a copy of each such medication chart to the Department of Health

       (9)              Subject to subsection (5), information provided by electronic means to the Chief Executive Medicare by an approved supplier in respect of pharmaceutical benefits