Average rates payable for extemporaneous items

The current prices include the following fees and rates:

• a dispensing fee of $9.78
• the additional fee for agreed price items of $1.66
• the container rates from the PBS website.

The average rate is the average of all standard formulae benefit prices for each extemporaneous preparation type.

An asterisk (*) means no prescriptions were submitted for the preparation type.

A zero price shows if an extemporaneous preparation type has no related standard formulae to calculate an average price. If you submit a prescription for payment for these average rate codes you must include a price.

The table is current as of March 2021. We update it each month.

PB code	Preparation name	Average 10 g/mL rate (in cents)	Price payable for maximum quantity ($)	Maximum price to patients ($)
13Q	Creams	44.66	15.49	17.15
48M	Dusting powders	276.70	38.22	39.88
15T	Ear drops	52.43	11.55	13.21
19B	Eye drops with cocaine hydrochloride	0.00	0.00	0.00
22E	Eye drops, other	0.00	0.00	0.00
23F	Eye lotions	0.00	0.00	0.00
29M	Inhalations	82.25	14.70	16.36
64J	Linctuses containing codeine phosphate	92.50	19.92	21.58
34T	Linctuses, other	0.00	0.00	0.00
39C	Lotions	15.05	13.91	15.57
65K	Mixtures containing codeine phosphate	0.00	0.00	0.00
40D	Mixtures, other	98.51	30.66	32.32
66L	Mixtures, children with codeine phosphate	0.00	0.00	0.00
41E	Mixtures for children, other	0.00	0.00	0.00
30N	Mouth washes	93.95	29.69	31.35
42F	Nasal instillations	0.00	0.00	0.00
43G	Ointments, waxes	121.54	23.17	24.83
44H	Paints	5646.95	151.85	41.30
63H	Pastes containing cocaine hydrochloride	0.00	0.00	0.00
45J	Pastes, other	281.73	39.19	40.85
49N	Powders for internal use	312.50	41.80	41.30
52R	Solutions	0.00	0.00	0.00