Don’t forget to lodge your claim forms
January 8, 2013
All Drug Administration Aids
(DAAs) and/or Clinical Interventions
PPI Periodic payment(s) application
(claim forms) must be lodged with
The Department of Human Services
(Medicare) no later than 14 January
2013 for the current claiming period
1 October to 31 December 2012.
When lodging a claim form with
Medicare it is not necessary to attach
supporting documentation.
All evidence to support your claim
must be retained by your pharmacy
as detailed in the PPI Program
Specific Guidelines.
Change of Pharmaceutical Benefit
Scheme (PBS) approval number
If your PBS approval number has
changed, it is the responsibility of
the owner/pharmacist manager to
update this change with Quality Care
Pharmacy Program (QCPP) and the
PPI registration system. Please refer
to the PPI Registration page for
further details.
What is a Clinical Intervention?
Under the PPI Program Specific
Guidelines, a clinical intervention is a
professional activity undertaken by a
registered pharmacist directed towards
improving quality use of medicines
and resulting in a recommendation
for a change in a patient's:
• medication therapy; or
• medication taking behaviour; or
• means of administration.
It is a process to prevent and/or
resolve an actual or potential drugrelated
problem.
A clinical intervention must relate
to a medicine (prescription or nonprescription)
and must be recorded
using the D.O.C.U.M.E.N.T.
classification system.
A clinical intervention does not
include the following activities:
• routine prescription-related counselling;
• generic medicine substitution;
• Consumer Medication Information
(CMI) provision; or
• professional activities undertaken
to improve Quality Use of Medicines
(QUM) during Home Medicine
Review (HMR), Residential
Medication Management Review
(RMMR), MedsCheck or Diabetes
MedsCheck services.
Don't forget, all claim forms must
be lodged by 14 January 2013 for the
current claiming period 1 October to
31 December 2012.
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