Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090:section:86c:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00090
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 86C (pt 3/4)
Character Range: 164764–167352

a number; and
 (c) a medicare number is not retained in the approved supplier's records in accordance with section 86D as such a number; and
 (d) the approved supplier is satisfied that the person to whom the prescription relates is included within a class of persons identified by the Minister in a determination under subsection 86E(1);
the approved supplier must:
 (e) endorse on the prescription the special number applicable to the person as a member of that class; or
 (f) insert that special number in the CTS claim relating to the prescription.

Requirement in respect of written version of communicated prescription not containing medicare number
 (7) If:
 (a) a prescription for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit is not presented to an approved supplier as described in subsection (1) but is communicated to the approved supplier in circumstances set out in regulations made for the purposes of paragraph 89(a); and
 (b) the pharmaceutical benefit is one in respect of the supply of which the approved supplier would, but for the operation of subsection 99AAAB(2), be entitled to receive a payment under subsection 99(2) or (4) or 99AAAA(2); and
 (c) the approved supplier later receives a written version of the prescription that does not contain a medicare number as a number applicable to the person to whom the prescription relates;
the approved supplier must, after the written version of the prescription is received, endorse on the written version, or insert in the CTS claim relating to the prescription:
 (d) if a medicare number is already retained in the approved supplier's records in accordance with section 86D as a number applicable to the person to whom the prescription relates—that medicare number; or
 (e) if a medicare number is not so retained as a number applicable to the person to whom the prescription relates—the special number applicable to the person under subsection 86E(1) as a person in respect of whom a prescription has been so communicated.
Note 1: Subsection 99AAAB(2) sets out the consequences of a failure ultimately to supply a medicare number or special number to the Chief Executive Medicare or, in the case of a medicare number that is so supplied, of a discrepancy with a medicare number held in the records of the Chief Executive Medicare.
Note 2: If, because a medicare number is not provided and a special number is not applicable, a person pays the full amount to an approved supplier for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit, the person may be entitled to an appropriate refund from the Commonwealth (see subsection 87A(2)).