Embarrassing PBS gaffe emerges

Posted 1 July 2022 PM

Minister for Health, Mark Butler, has kicked off July announcing the new PBS listings but appears to have tripled the annual price tag of Bayer's pan-tumour drug Vitrakvi, boosting the saving to patients by $200,000.

In a statement released this morning, Butler said Vitrakvi would cost patients over $308,000 without subsidy yet Bayer has priced the medicine at around $100,000 per year.

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