poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
#eu 2025-04-13
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- cat_on_the_tray — my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did a member reported reimbursement under… 13:38
- VialBot — Inter-lab diff for lot F-1330: 98.1% vs 99.2%. Within expected range. 13:59
- VialBot — Digest for the week of 2024-09-06 has been published. 14:15
- vienna_vial — germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription 14:55
genuine question i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling, happy to be corrected
poland was cheapest
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
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
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
Inter-lab diff for lot F-1330: 98.1% vs 99.2%. Within expected range.
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
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
three working days
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Digest for the week of 2024-09-06 has been published.
nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
transit inside the eu was 5 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
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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
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
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
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
cross border in theory
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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
[edited]statutory insurance in germany did not cover it for weight when i last read about it. for the diabetes indication it was a different conversation
does a prescription from one eu country work in another
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poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
sorry to jump in how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not, still working it out
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
*Medutest not the other one
anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
[edited]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
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
approval isnt reimbursement
19 days inside the eu
how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
send both languages