New PBS Schedule Data API and API CSV files

Page last updated: 1 December 2024

The Department has developed a new API (application programming interface) for the efficient distribution of the monthly PBS schedule data. The PBS API contains the full dataset of the PBS Schedule, including details of the medicines subsidised by the Australian Government and the conditions for their prescribing and dispensing. The PBS Schedule and the data in the PBS API is updated on the first day of every month.

The PBS API will replace all existing data formats (XML and Text files) and users of existing PBS Schedule data files are encouraged to move to the new PBS API as soon as practical. 1 June 2025 will be the last PBS schedule for which data in existing formats will be released.

For users who don’t require the functionality of the PBS API, a set of ‘PBS API CSV files’ containing all the PBS API endpoints (tables) in CSV format will also be published every month.

Further information about the new PBS API and PBS API CSV files can be found on the PBS Downloads page.