Requested PBS & RPBS Groups processed from July 2020 to June 2021 |
| State | Total | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSW | VIC | QLD | SA | WA | TAS | ACT | NT | |||
| $Benefit | $Benefit | $Benefit | $Benefit | $Benefit | $Benefit | $Benefit | $Benefit | $Benefit | ||
| Scheme | Patient Category | 1,452,081,227 | 1,134,940,597 | 818,883,569 | 285,774,001 | 482,781,871 | 93,021,512 | 108,915,854 | 31,223,408 | 4,407,622,038 |
| PBS (click to drilldown to Normal/Special Arrangements) |
General - Ordinary | |||||||||
| General - Safety Net | 46,107,828 | 38,119,754 | 27,044,878 | 9,560,837 | 17,460,681 | 3,068,969 | 4,197,375 | 386,250 | 145,946,571 | |
| Concessional - Ordinary | 2,192,528,132 | 1,692,052,026 | 1,515,980,565 | 575,269,500 | 663,108,421 | 203,743,366 | 84,013,341 | 27,890,918 | 6,954,586,269 | |
| Concessional - Free Safety Net | 632,059,747 | 479,979,308 | 407,496,208 | 164,040,251 | 174,653,459 | 62,802,861 | 21,902,503 | 3,099,550 | 1,946,033,887 | |
| Doctors Bag Order Form | 3,995,829 | 3,659,517 | 2,964,330 | 915,950 | 1,080,351 | 289,000 | 140,923 | 80,004 | 13,125,902 | |
| Total | 4,326,772,762 | 3,348,751,202 | 2,772,369,550 | 1,035,560,538 | 1,339,084,781 | 362,925,708 | 219,169,996 | 62,680,130 | 13,467,314,668 | |
| RPBS (click to drilldown to Normal/Special Arrangements) |
Patient Category | 66,955,982 | 39,857,904 | 75,606,889 | 16,890,060 | 22,939,960 | 7,596,228 | 5,703,483 | 1,118,322 | 236,668,829 |
| RPBS - Ordinary | ||||||||||
| RPBS - Safety Net | 26,895,282 | 15,519,309 | 29,083,495 | 6,127,015 | 8,518,907 | 2,748,970 | 2,188,049 | 200,603 | 91,281,629 | |
| Total | 93,851,264 | 55,377,213 | 104,690,384 | 23,017,075 | 31,458,866 | 10,345,199 | 7,891,532 | 1,318,925 | 327,950,458 | |
| Total | 4,420,624,026 | 3,404,128,415 | 2,877,059,934 | 1,058,577,613 | 1,370,543,648 | 373,270,906 | 227,061,528 | 63,999,055 | 13,795,265,125 | |
Important Information
- The figures contain some "Special Arrangements" items (eg Section 100 highly specialised drugs prescribed in Private Hospitals for out-patients). For more details on the items included in these figures, see the footnotes on the Normal Arrangements / Special Arrangements breakdown page (accessed via the hyperlinks in the requested tables).
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- The figures reported relate to the value (benefit) or volume (services) of PBS and RPBS services that have been processed by Services Australia. They refer only to paid services processed from claims presented by approved pharmacies. They do not include any adjustments made against pharmacists' claims, any manually paid claims or any benefits paid as a result of retrospective entitlement or refund of patient contributions.
- State/Territory is determined according to the address of the pharmacy supplying the item.
- Month is determined by the date the service was processed by Services Australia, not the date of prescribing or the date of supply by the pharmacy.
- Monthly figures may vary due to the varying number of processing days in a month, which depends on the number of days in the month, public holidays, overtime worked etc.
- A financial year is 1 July to 30 June.
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Last updated: 26 Febuary 2025