i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
#eu 2025-02-07
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- lead_time_lars — in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot 10:22
- gip_glp_gil — you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them 11:49
- gip_glp_gil — ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other 11:52
- gip_glp_gil — is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same… 11:58
- snac_and_water — no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, we shall see 13:31
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
write simple english
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is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot
send both languages
transit inside the eu was 5 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
varies by pharmacy
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
cross border in theory
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
prices moved since
three working days
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you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
[edited]poland was cheapest
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is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, we shall see
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translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
nordics are brutal
member reported
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly, i think
diabetes yes weight no
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the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here