Manual of resource items and their associated unit costs - December 2016
Page last updated: 21 December 2016
For use in submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) involving economic analyses.
To ensure consistency and comparability within and between submissions to the PBAC and over time, it is essential that submissions use consistent measures of medical and other health-related services relevant to therapy involving a medicine, and cost them in a consistent manner.
This manual has been developed to help sponsors to ensure consistency when preparing economic evaluations.
- Record of updates
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 General principles and recommendations
- 3 How to use this Manual
- 4 Medicines,medicinal preparations or vaccines
- 4.1 Proposed medicine, medicinal preparation or vaccine
- 4.2 Comparator and co-prescribed medicines or medicinal preparations
- 4.3 Over-the-counter medicines
- 4.4 Medicine delivery systems
- 4.5 Medicine administration costs
- 5 Medical Services, including investigative, diagnostic and allied health services
- 6 Hospital Services
- 6.1 Admitted patient services
- 6.2 Nonadmitted hospital care
- 6.3 Emergency department services
- 7 Community-based services
- 7.1 Residential care
- 7.2 Home care
- 7.3 Home nursing
- 7.4 Ambulance services
- 7.5 Other community-based services
- 8 Variation to unit costs of medicines for Section 4 of a submission to the PBAC
- 8.1 Calculating the unit cost of medicines or medicinal preparations from the perspective of the PBS/RPBS
- 8.2 Calculating the financial unit cost of medical services from the perspective of the MBS
- Appendix 1 - Internet addresses
PDF version of the Manual as at December 2016
Archival versions of the Manual
