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Home Medicines Review (HMR)
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Parent Body
Commonwealth Department of Health & Ageing
Eligibility
People taking a number of different medicines or having difficulty with their medicines who have been assessed by their local GP and referred for a HMR., Anyone - the patient, the patient's carer, a family member, the patient's pharmacist or community nurse - can ask the GP if a HMR would be helpful. Only a GP can refer the patient for a HMR., Note that the service is available only to people living at home in a community setting. It is NOT available to in-patients of a hospital, day hospital facility or care recipients in residential aged care facilities. A separate program, the Residential Medication Management Review (RMMR), provides medication reviews for people in residential aged care facilities
Fees
The Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) rebate for a HMR is reviewed annually in November and is currently $140. This cost includes: the initial consultation and written referral to the patient's pharmacist, together with relevant clinical information; discussion with the pharmacist on the findings and recommendation from the review; and a second consultation with the GP to agree on a medication management plan., The GP's fee may be billed to Medicare or a rebate claimed by the patient as with any other consultation., A fee per review is paid by the Government to the pharmacist conducting the Home Medicines Review and there is no charge to the patient
Comment
The goal of the Home Medicines Review (HMR) program is to maximise an individual patient's benefit from their medication regime and to prevent medication-related problems through a team approach involving the patient's GP and preferred community pharmacist, with the patient as the central focus., In collaboration with the GP, a pharmacist comprehensively reviews the patient's medication regimen in a home visit. After discussion of the visit findings and report with the pharmacist, the GP and patient agree on a medication management plan.
Services
- Medication reviews
