cross border in theory
#eu 2025-02-22
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- deadspace — for the archive anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly 14:37
- LC_MS_Lena — a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy 17:11
- monoisotopic — the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year 17:17
*PeptideMeter not the other one
for the archive anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
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has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
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
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
three working days
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
nordics are brutal
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genuine question netherlands was reported in here at around 200 euros a month out of pocket a year or so ago, with conditions attached to any reimbursement, i have it written down somewhere
[edited]any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
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quick one pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
for the archive german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
send both languages
vat on imports from outside the eu applied from a very low threshold when i last imported, and the carrier handling fee was bigger than the vat
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
diabetes yes weight no
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
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privat means you pay
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is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
peptidemeter-summary-h-2814.pdf
2 pages · 573 KB · not retained in the public archive
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germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
genuine question 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, take that with a pinch of salt
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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Inter-lab diff for lot B-0329: 98.6% vs 99.4%. Within expected range.
transit inside the eu was 17 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
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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
a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in another under the cross border rules. whether the pharmacist knows that is another matter
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
reported by members, own currency, not comparable directly
private clinic, UK 145 - 220
statutory, DE 10 co-pay
private script, DE 180 - 240
pharmacy, PL 95 - 140
pharmacy, SE 210 - 260i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not, ymmv
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
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the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does, not advice obviously
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere