Table 1.

List the differences / similarities of lawsuits vs. administrative cases

	Lawsuits	Administrative cases
Avenue of appeal	Citizen appeals to the Judiciary Branch	Citizen appeals to the Executive Branch
Cost to citizens	It has cost to open a request	It has no cost to open a request
Limitations	No requirement of the type of service that issued the prescription (prescribed by a SUS clinician or private system clinician)	Requirement prescriptions prescribed by a SUS clinician
Evaluation process and criteria	The requests are evaluated by a judge, who consider the plaintiff’s personal documents, the medical prescription containing the description of the medicines requested.	The requests are evaluated by a commission of pharmacists, who consider both medical criteria, health record and compatibility with public health policies.