Resources

Communiques for the Prostheses List Reform Governance Group meetings.

The Stoma Appliance Scheme schedule lists all of the stoma-related products and appliances that we subsidise under the scheme. You can view the full list, or just the additions, deletions or variations.

View the grouping schemes for each product category in the Prostheses List, effective from 1 March 2020. They include suffixes and definitions.

This guide explains the listing process for the Prostheses List, including how to apply to add a new listing or change an existing listing.

This document sets out the purpose, roles, function and composition of PLAC.

These guidelines set out how PLAC will operate to deliver on its Terms of Reference.

This document sets out the roles, function, membership, meetings and secretariat of the Governance Group.

This document is the terms of reference for the review of the General Miscellaneous Category of the Prostheses List.

This report describes the proceedings of the Revised Benefit Setting and Review Framework Industry Working Group (BSRIWG) over 8 meetings held between April 2018 and February 2020.

This document reports on the outcomes of the Review of the General Miscellaneous Category of the Prostheses List.

This statement describes how the Department of Health recovers the costs of administering the Prostheses List.

A Budget 2021–22 fact sheet.

The Australian Government is investing $22 million over 4 years to modernise and improve the Prostheses List (PL). This includes addressing issues raised by recent reviews of the scope and operation of PL.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify details of the government’s decision to better define the PL purpose, definitions, and scope and explore how this might be implemented in delegated legislation and the guidance.

This statement describes how the Department of Health recovers the costs of administering the Prostheses List.

This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Minister for Health and Aged care and the Medical Technology Association of Australia.

This fact sheet is a list of the reviews of prostheses list since 1985.

The executive summary shows the stakeholder views to improvements to the Protheses List (PL) as announced in the 2021- 22 Federal Budget.

A list of all the items in the Prostheses list by private hospital type.

This list sets out the prostheses that private health insurers must pay benefits for (if the patient is covered) and the benefit amount. The latest version is effective from 1 March 2022. Prostheses include surgically implanted prostheses, human tissue items and other medical devices.

Updated final list of general use items from part A to be removed from the Prostheses List which includes data from the published March 2022 PL.

This Budget fact sheet outlines how the Government will support people with stomas to manage their condition by adding two new and fully subsidised stoma care products to the Stoma Appliance Scheme.

Sign this form if you are an ostomates who needs more than 4 times the maximum quantity allowed for stoma products and appliances listed in the Stoma Appliance Scheme Schedule. This allows us to access personal information so that we can assess your eligibility.