The share of PBS prescriptions dispensed with no patient subsidy has risen from 24 per cent in 2012-13 to 32 per cent in 2021-22 with total out-of-pocket costs for these medicines topping $1.5 billion.
Under co-payment prescriptions top 100 million for the first time
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