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You may get prescribed medicines and wound care items at a concessional rate through the RPBS if you have an assessed clinical need for the item and hold a:
You will receive medicines and wound care items at a concessional rate if they are available through the RPBS, you have a prescription from your health provider and you have an assessed clinical need.
Type of card
Benefits
Veteran Gold or Orange Card
You can get available items for any assessed clinical need.
Veteran White Card
You can get available items for an assessed clinical need that relates to a condition covered by your card.
How much will you pay?
When you get prescribed medicines or wound care items at the concession rate, you make a co-payment of $7.70.
A co-payment is the contribution you make to get medicines and wound care items at the concession rate. Pharmacists used to be able to offer a discount of up to $1.00 on your $7.70 co-payment for each prescription, but on 1 January 2025 the government announced this optional discount is being gradually reduced each year by the amount of indexation that would have applied to your co-payments. This reduction will continue until it reaches zero.
If there is more than one brand of medicines with the same active ingredients, the $7.70 co-payment covers the lowest priced brand.
If you or your health provider wants a more expensive brand, you need to pay the difference.
How to claim under the RPBS
Let your doctor or other health provider know you hold a Gold, White or Orange card.
Your doctor or other health provider know that you may need to get approval from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs before prescribing you some items on the PBS.
They need to get approval from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs before prescribing medicines not listed on either schedule.
When you present your White, Gold or Orange card and your RPBS prescription to a pharmacy, the concession rate of $7.70 applies.
