Prescription charges

Prescription charges calculator

  • This calculator tells you how much EACH medicine on your prescription will cost for people eligible for publicly-funded healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand.
  • It calculates prescription charges based on age, if you have any health subsidy cards, who has prescribed the medicine and if the medicine is subsidised.
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The cost you pay for medicines on prescriptions in Aotearoa New Zealand depends on a number of factors, including:

  • your immigration status (whether you're a resident or non–resident of Aotearoa New Zealand or Australia)
  • your age
  • if you have any health cards, eg, a Community Services Card
  • if the medicine is fully subsidised, partially subsidised, or not subsidised
  • the prescriber, eg, if they're a GP or nurse practitioner, public hospital specialist, private specialist or dentist in a private practice.

Read more about eligibility for subsidised healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand(external link).

Use the calculator below to find out the cost of EACH medicine on your prescription. Read more about prescription charges.

Prescription charges and the prescription subsidy scheme(external link) Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora
Collecting and paying for medicines(external link) PHARMAC, NZ
Community Services Card(external link) Work and Income, NZ
High Use Health Card(external link) New Zealand Government | Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa

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Reviewed by: Angela Lambie, Pharmacist, Auckland and Martin Lowis and Cathy Martin, Senior Advisory Pharmacists, Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand.

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