National Health Amendment (Enhancing the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Bill 2021
Amends the: National Health Act 1953 to: provide for price reductions on the fifth, tenth and fifteenth anniversary of a drug listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), and when the first new brand of a drug lists on the PBS; retain ministerial discretion to ensure that the minister can intervene if a legislated price reduction were to have an unintended consequence; and establish a price reduction floor, and stockholding requirements, for certain PBS listed brands that may be susceptible to global medicines shortages; and National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits—Budget and Other Measures) Act 2018 to remove redundant provisions.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/Bills_Search_Results/Result?bId=r6799
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