Prescribing Androcur

[Anonymous]

Also it can be ordered under androcur 50 on code 1269T when starting on it.(code 1230 is now streamlined and it is for 5 repeats- no phone call required)

Interesting Beth, but wouldn’t your medicare number have been the same and this would have identified you with medicare under the actual gender they have recorded for you? Don’t know if you are pre op but it might be worth checking, it would be interesting to find out. Some say that medicare won’t change a person’s gender on their records until they have had surgery.

With me, when I quiried my scripts with them early this year, medicare confirmed my identity as already female. Before I started on hormones, (oestrodiol valerate), they had sent me a new medicare card, (actually a receipt, then the new card followed shortly afterwards), under my new name and the number appeared to be different on the end. Also I had my name change before I had my doctor order genetic tests with QML. ( happy to share my letter from medicare – quite the surprise – I plan to send it to births, death, marriages eventually)). So, from the start, my gender and the codes that were used and which one of my doctors used this year would have appeared mismatched and strange to medicare if they had scrutinized it closely. But nothing was ever said or quiried, and I was none the wiser at the time. As you said, they seem to be turning a blind eye to it, or don’t have the human resources.
And I hear different stories from different people and how they were prescribed androcur, and the variety of doses they have been put on. I feel that there is a lot of education to be done with Doctors in regards to transgender health especially when prescribing hormones.

[Anonymous]

The new authorisation code as i said allows me to get 3 boxes of the 50mg, (60 tablets in total) for the same price a single box, so it saves me $76 a month. There are ways within the system to help us occasionally.

And your right, i am pre-op so in theory Medicare still has me listed as male.

And we are talking 2 government departments here, i dont know anything about them, but i would put money on PBS not linking to Medicare, or at least this person has a valid medicare number and can therefore use PBS and as long as that medication has the correct approval number associated with it so the chemist can claim it back.

you would think that the onus for correct scripts in the system will be with the doctors, but you would also think there would be safeguards in place as to not take advantage of PBS like we are doing, but it would appear from the outside there is not.

I think we are getting slightly off track here.

Beth.

Edit: oops yes Pre-Op

[Anonymous]

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And your right, i am post-op so in theory Medicare still has me listed as male.

Post-OP and still as male? Is that a typo? (I’m pre-op and listed as female)

FWIW on the original topic..

I was prescribed Androcur initially and a few months later applied for and got a significant clearance with the AFP (not applied for a Blue card as there was no need)..

Sexual Deviant list policy differs per state (or did 3 years ago – haven’t checked since as I am not living in Australia at the moment.)

Mhix