Robert Troy
Question:3081. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Health the way a family (details supplied) can claim for the backdated cost of prescriptions for eligible patients treated under Ministerial licence. [40195/21]
View answerTuesday, 27 July 2021
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The HSE have advised that where a patient who has a valid medical prescription for medical cannabis and whose treating clinician holds a valid Ministerial licence and who has sourced a cannabis-based product may submit an application to the HSE Corporate Pharmaceutical Unit in the PCRS for reimbursement.
The HSE has advised that in the previous situations where it considered reimbursement support appropriate, the following steps were completed:
- The patient’s consultant is satisfied that all therapeutic options have been exhausted and is prepared to accept the responsibility for monitoring the patient’s response to the cannabis product.
- A prescriber has successfully applied to the Minister for a Ministerial license.
- The consultant completes an Individual Reimbursement Form, setting out the therapeutic benefit for the patient. It is important that this is completed in sufficient detail for therapeutic benefit to be demonstrated.
- The Individual Reimbursement Form is considered by the Medicines Management Programme (MMP).
- On review of the documentation, the MMP makes a recommendation for or against reimbursement support for the patient to the HSE, under the patient's eligibility, and informs the Primary Care Reimbursement Service (PCRS) of that recommendation.
- If approval is given, the PCRS, when authorised to proceed, will make the necessary arrangements to cover the costs involved for the patient.
- The contact details for the CPU as follows:
Corporate Pharmaceutical Unit,
HSE, Primary Care Reimbursement Service,
Exit 5, M50,
Finglas,
Dublin 11.
D11XKF3
Phone No: 01 8915725
Fax No: 01 8915757
Email Address: CPU@hse.ie