Please note: You’ll get an immediate assessment when you request PBS authorities online.
Patient eligibility
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) subsidises treatment with eltrombopag under the National Health Act 1953, section 100 for patients with severe aplastic anaemia.
Patients must be eligible for the PBS and meet the relevant restriction criteria.
The Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits on the PBS website outlines the restrictions for prescribing eltrombopag.
Section 100 arrangements
Eltrombopag
This item is only PBS-subsidised for non-admitted patients, day admitted patients, or patients on discharge who are attending:
- an approved private hospital
- a public hospital.
This item isn’t PBS-subsidised for public hospital in-patients. You must include the hospital name and provider number on the authority application form.
Authority applications
First line setting
Applying for first-line treatment
Applications for authority approval to prescribe PBS-subsidised eltrombopag as first-line treatment to treat severe aplastic anaemia can be made either in:
- real time using the Online PBS Authorities system
- writing and use HPOS Form upload
- writing and mail to PBS Complex Drugs Programs.
All written applications must include:
- details of the proposed prescription or prescriptions
- the completed severe aplastic anaemia - eltrombopag - initial authority application form
- relevant attachments.
Applying for grandfather treatment
Applications for grandfather authority approval to prescribe PBS-subsidised eltrombopag as first-line treatment to treat severe aplastic anaemia can be made either in:
- real time using the Online PBS Authorities system
- writing and use HPOS Form upload
- writing and mail to PBS Complex Drugs Programs.
All written applications must include:
- details of the proposed prescription or prescriptions
- the completed severe aplastic anaemia - eltrombopag - initial grandfather authority application form
- relevant attachments.
Second line setting
Applying for initial second-line treatment
Applications for initial authority approval to prescribe PBS-subsidised eltrombopag as second-line treatment to treat severe aplastic anaemia can be made either in:
- real time using the Online PBS Authorities system
- writing and use HPOS Form upload
- writing and mail to PBS Complex Drugs Programs.
All written applications must include:
- details of the proposed prescription or prescriptions
- the completed severe aplastic anaemia - eltrombopag - initial authority application form
- relevant attachments.
Applying for continuing second-line treatment
Applications for continuing authority approval to prescribe PBS-subsidised eltrombopag as second-line treatment to treat severe aplastic anaemia can be made either:
- in real time using the Online PBS Authorities system
- by calling the PBS Complex Drug Programs enquiry line.
More information
Call the PBS Complex Drugs Programs enquiry line for more information.