For most medicines in Australia, it’s $25, or $7.70 if you have a concession card (HCC/DVA Gold/RHCA), Pharmacies get a set dispense fee (unless it’s a dangerous medicine or needs to be compounded, which just add extra set fees) and the Pharma company gets a fixed negotiated amount paid from taxes.
PBS isn’t about kickbacks, it’s just lower price Medicine.
Trump specifically hates our PBS since it ‘hurts American pharmaceutical companies’ yet the actual US pharma companies love it, since it’s a reliable customer
You can see the prices we pay for medicines- https://www.pbs.gov.au/healthpro/explanatory-notes/front/fee
For most medicines in Australia, it’s $25, or $7.70 if you have a concession card (HCC/DVA Gold/RHCA), Pharmacies get a set dispense fee (unless it’s a dangerous medicine or needs to be compounded, which just add extra set fees) and the Pharma company gets a fixed negotiated amount paid from taxes.