The Pharmaceutical Benefits Pricing Authority (PBPA) is an independent non-statutory body established by the Minister for Health and Ageing. It makes recommendations to the Minister on prices for new brands of pharmaceutical items that have been recommended for listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), and for new vaccines recommended for inclusion on the National Immunisation Program, by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC). The PBPA may also recommend revised prices where uses of drugs are extended or changed.