Script Renewal Requests
Fees are charged for
prescription renewals or
prescription repeat checks
requested for processing outside of appointments.
A Script Request Form should be completed for any script request. The request may then be considered in an appointment.
The fees for script requests processed outside an appointment are detailed in your provider's Fee Schedule.
An invoice will be issued in accordance with your provider's policies and procedures to ensure that the cost of the work of the request is covered .
If posting or faxing of a paper script is requested, there will be an additional charge of $15.00
Staff will, prior to issuing the invoice, have checked for any note of your provider's intentions
to provide the requested script outside an appointment, without charge.
to require an appointment for the requested script review and renewal (the Script Request Form/s must still be completed).
The script may be issued and invoiced by an associated locum for your usual provider.
How to Pay
When making the Request or once you have been invoiced, please pay by
phone 8332 3778
or make a bank transfer using the provider's ABN as their PayID (the ABN is shown on the Invoice) and email a copy of your bank's remittance of the payment to our admin email.
The Invoice is issued in accordance with the terms and conditions detailed in your provider's Fee Payment Policy.
Why fees?
Fees are charged to cover the work of processing prescription requests outside of appointments. This administrative work required is significant, and the doctor must open your child's file, review the prescriptions and any Authorities. They may need to check ScriptCheck and apply for the Authorities.
Your provider will aim to offer review appointments in time for script renewals. Some providers may schedule a Script renewal and further eScript for your child in their tasks to avoid the need for the administrative work of processing a Script Request. However, to avoid the need for a Script Request outside of an appointment, please schedule your child's review appointment for the issue of scripts at the correct time. Discuss any concerns, in advance in your appointment with your provider. Generally, your provider will need to review your child's progress regarding medication at least yearly. Some providers always require a review appointment for stimulant script renewals.
Further Information
Script Request Fees are charged whether your doctor or their locum
issues the maximum allowed script repeats (usually 6 months);
requires an appointment to review the medication and your child's progress in the coming days or weeks.
declines to issue the script, or requires that the script be reviewed and issued in an appointment;
issues one month's supply until they can review your child in an appointment;
may waive the script fee at their discretion.
If your doctor, at their discretion, and after payment, waives the fee, any script fees you have paid will be converted to an Account Deposit and applied to contribute to the payment of the fee for your child's next appointment, unless no further appointments are scheduled.
Please ensure you check your repeats before submitting a script request to avoid an unnecessary Script Request Fee:
To avoid a fee, please check the number of repeats left, either on the medication packet or at a pharmacy.
Repeats should be listed on the dispensing label on your child’s medication. If the label shows you have repeats and it is less than
6 months (Stimulant and other monitored medications) was first written, or
12 months (for other medications) since the script was first written,
It is very likely that you have repeats, and the new script you request cannot be issued.
If unsure, contact a pharmacist. The pharmacist who issued the recent script should have sent an SMS to you reporting on and documenting your eScript repeats. This will have been sent to one parent, so parents should check with each other to see if they have received this SMS. Paper repeats may be given to you or kept at the pharmacy.
Any pharmacist can check on Script Check for your child’s current stimulant or other monitored medications prescription status, availability of repeats and where you last filled the prescription.
Paediatricians can investigate your current script status, but this service and the associated administrative work may be billed to you even if they have not provided a new script. The work of checking the script status is usually the same or more than the work of issuing a new script.
Repeats- the number that can be issued and expiry:
Stimulant Scripts expire after 6 months, regardless of whether you have used all the repeats or not.
Usually, six prescriptions (initial plus five repeats) are issued for most long-acting stimulants. Sometimes Paediatricians issue a smaller amount as a trial or to cover you until a review appointment.
If your child takes the medication every day, you will run out of scripts in just under 6 months (because some months are 31 days).
Use the form below to request script renewals for any medications prescribed by your associated provider.
However, your paediatrician or their locum, as per their professional, clinical and regulatory responsibilities,
may require a face-to-face appointment to review your child's progress, medication side effects or efficacy before issuing a script at any time.
may require a face-to-face review, usually a month, after beginning a new medication or dosage change.
will require, in the case of Authority Prescriptions, that your child is reviewed with a physical check-up face to face at least every six months and may decline the script request until your child can attend a review appointment. Please contact the rooms to arrange an appointment if not already booked.
may agree that a child from a regional, rural or remote area may have their medication reviewed over video but also require a physical check with and report from a more local health provider such as a GP.
may issue an interim script, if possible, once you have booked a review appointment and require that your child attend that appointment before any further prescription is made.
will require your child to have a current referral to their care for this matter.
may decline to renew the prescription.
Stimulant Medications shortage?
If you are not able to fill your Concerta/ Teva XR or Ritalin LA script due to the current shortage, please go here for more information and a form to request an alternative medication.
Please complete a Script Renewal Request Form below for each script requested.
-ensure you indicate whether you are going to send more than one script request form as part of your request.
The fee for additional scripts is reduced on the assumption that the administrative team can process your forms together and the doctor can open your child's file and complete all script renewal requests at once. If, later, a second process is required, and the doctor needs to reopen the file to review and provide further script renewals, the additional work will be billed as a new, unrelated Script Request.