About Script Renewal Requests
Dr Yanni’s patients
Dr Yanni’s patients must book an appointment for any script renewal or prescription changes.
Generally, she will require a standard appointment for review of any Authority Medications and Fluoxetine, or if there are questions, concerns or change requests. A short appointment can be booked for other non-Authority Medications if there are no changes requested and if you do not have any other questions or concerns.
Fees are charged by the other associated paediatricians for the following requests for processing
prescription renewals or
prescription repeat checks
The Script Request Fee will be
$35 for any Request for one or more medications, including Intuniv, or that do not require an Authority .
$40 for any Request including at least one Authority medication.
and if required urgently, an additional charge of $40 (within 5 business days or your provider’s next clinic, whichever is the latter).
If, instead of an eScript, posting or faxing of a paper script is requested, there will be an additional charge of $15.00.
If there are any difficulties with the Request process, it will be cancelled and an appointment offered instead.
Your Request may then be completed during an appointment or provided without one.
Is the Script Request Fee always invoiced?
Staff will, prior to issuing the invoice, have checked your provider's
Indication in the file of a specific intention to provide the requested script outside an appointment, without charge.
General policy requiring an appointment for all cases involving certain types of Requests, in which case the Request will not be processed or charged. Instead, an appointment will be offered or your child will be placed on the Cancellation List for an earlier appointment.
General policy to sometimes require an appointment for the Request. An appointment may be required to complete the Request where the Request involves additional work, or for more than one or two scripts, or where changes need to be discussed, and at the provider’s discretion. In this case, the Script Request Form/s must still be completed and the Script Request Fee paid. If an appointment is required, your doctor may, at their discretion, adjust the appointment fee to reflect the Script Request Fee already paid.
When a request is urgent or your provider is on leave, a locum may complete the Request for your doctor either without or with an appointment at their discretion.
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. (See the Invoice)
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, including the administrative work. Where the work of a Request is more involved or changes are requested, your doctor may need to complete the Request in an appointment.
How to avoid Script Request Fees:
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.
Instead of submitting a Request, you can ask to book or bring forward an appointment.
Remember to discuss and plan any script needs with your provider in your appointment.
Consider if your GP can provide the Script Renewal.
General Information about checking Prescription Repeats
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.
It is very likely that you have repeats, and the new script you request cannot be issued 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.
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 will be billed to you even if the doctor has 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).
Please, always use the Script Renewal Request Form linked here to request script renewals for any medications prescribed by your associated provider.
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.
Medical professional responsibilities regarding prescriptions
Your paediatrician or their locum, as per their professional, clinical and regulatory responsibilities,
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.