Disease index

primary hypercholesterolaemia

Cardiovascular · 2009–2009

1decision
1medicine
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision here pre-dates the consumer comments facility, so no input would be recorded either way.

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
ezetimibe with simvastatin Treatment in conjunction with dietary therapy and exercise in patients whose cholesterol levels are inadequately controlled with an HMG CoA reductase inhibitor… Mar 2009 Recommended with restriction no section in document

What the PBS pays

$65M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 4,165,851 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
ezetimibe with simvastatin $65M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 2 technologies for this condition, recommending 2 . A different committee, a different population and a different price: this is what has been looked at there, not a verdict on what happened here.

TechnologyAppraisalOutcomeDate
bempedoic acidBempedoic acid with ezetimibe for treating primary hypercholesterolaemia or mixed dyslipidaemia TA694 recommended restricted 2021-04
ezetimibeEzetimibe for treating primary heterozygous-familial and non-familial hypercholesterolaemia TA385 recommended 2016-02

Registered, not subsidised

Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.

MedicineOn the ARTG sinceRegistrations
pitavastatinLIVALO pitavastatin 1 mg film-coated tablet blister pack 2013 3

The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 0 of 0 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.