Your prescriptions

Welcome to the PBS—providing all Australians with affordable access to over 2600 brands of prescription medicine. Here you can find out more about the PBS—including how much you will pay, how to save money on medicine and how to use medicine wisely. You can also find out more about the PBS Safety Net and PBS and compensation.

Your PBS checklist

• Your Medicare card and concession card/s to your pharmacist each time you get a prescription filled
• Ask for less expensive brands of medicine
• Protect yourself with the PBS Safety Net —keep a record of how much you spend
• Don’t get more medicine than you need
• Make sure you know the rules about travelling overseas with PBS medicine
• Claiming and collecting PBS benefits for someone else

Need more information?

• visit your nearest Medicare office
• email pbs@medicareaustralia.gov.au
• call 1800 020 613

Useful links

• PBS – Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits
• Department of Health and Ageing
• Department of Veterans' Affairs
• The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
• National Prescribing Service (NPS)

Last updated: 15 April, 2009