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Ask the Australian reimbursement record

Every sentence comes back with a verbatim quote from the document it cites, or it does not appear. What the record cannot answer is listed as unanswered.

3,023 Public Summary Documents 4,271 decisions 1,014 medicines indexed as at 28 Aug 2026

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Anchor the brief on a medicine you can name. Retrieval is strongest on a named medicine and its neighbours; questions posed at the level of a drug class can surface a near neighbour that does not belong to it.

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What's in the record 18

18 bodies of evidence, each counted in its own unit — a paragraph is not a document, so these are never added together. 2 is searched by the agent, 3 annotate the finished brief, and 11 are held in the record but not yet reachable from a question. Anything checkable you can open and read for yourself.

The Australian record

PBAC Public Summary Documents 3,023 searched

PBS Procedure Guidance 140 searched

PSD full text 340,407

PBS Medicine Status register 1,320 annotates

MSAC decisions 334

MSAC application register 562

Funded outside the PBS

LSDP, immunisation and blood 161

ARTG registrations 17,478

What was actually paid

PBS expenditure 558

The people

Consumer comments 2,680

Advocacy register 209

The evidence

Clinical trials 575 annotates

Drug mechanism 126 annotates

HTA and health-economics literature 615

Overseas, as contrast

NICE technology appraisals 920

PHARMAC and Ontario 947

Licensed

Hospital episodes soon licensed

IQVIA your licence licensed