Which thyroid medications and bio-identical T4, T3 equivalents meet criteria for government funding
Belinda Hodson made this Official Information request to Pharmaceutical Management Agency
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From: Belinda Hodson
Dear Pharmaceutical Management Agency,
1. For each of the years 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010 and 2015, what of the following have met the criteria for subsidisation by the government; and under what criteria. Please provide the breakdown by:
(a) all thyroid medications e.g. Synthroid, Cytomol, Eltroxin, and
(b) all Natural Desiccated Thyroid (NDT) equivalents to these medications (note that NDTs are also called bio-identical hormones) e.g. Whole Thyroid Extract, Extended Release T3.
2. What are the current criteria thyroid medications and/or the NDT equivalents such as Whole Thyroid Extract need to meet to attract government funding so that the cost of these are lower for patients?
3. What is the current process (as it applied to thyroid treatment) that is used to set these criteria, specifically:
a. What are the inputs to this process e.g. types of research and source(s); who is consulted e.g. type of medical specialist or medical agency.
b. Who ultimately decides whether a medication/NDT meets the criteria?
c. How are patients’ actual experiences of being on these medications/NDTs represented in this process?; and what New Zealand and/or overseas patient data e.g. medical records of patients, are used to substantiate this? And, who provides this information? And who funds this information (as funders and providers may be different entities).
4. Have NDTs ever been up for consideration for government funding?
a. If not, then why not? and
b. If they have, then in what year did this happen? Which of the criteria did they meet and which of the criteria did they not meet. What was the outcome of the consideration and on what basis were they declined or accepted?
5. Have thyroid medications containing T3 e.g. Cytomol, ever been up for consideration for government funding?
a. If not, then why not? and
b. If they have, then in what year did this happen? Which of the criteria did they meet and which of the criteria did they not meet; what was the outcome of the consideration and on what basis were they declined or accepted?
Yours faithfully,
Belinda Hodson
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