a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
#eu 2025-04-14
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- thirty_min_wait — 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, thats one… 17:25
- thirty_min_wait — coming back after 19 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere 17:27
- gip_glp_gil — update on the earlier thing pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more 17:30
- madrid_mg — while im here poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago 19:11
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
varies by pharmacy
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any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
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
three working days
write simple english
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
diabetes yes weight no
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
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, thats one data point
coming back after 19 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
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approval isnt reimbursement
update on the earlier thing pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
nordics are brutal
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from, anyway
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
quick one crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
quick one a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
poland was cheapest
send both languages
what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
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
while im here poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
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that was 2024 pricing
sorry to jump in is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking