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, take that with a pinch of salt
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#eu 2025-05-07
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Highlights from this day
- vienna_vial — 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 19:09
- two_four_ceiling — i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not 21:24
- monoisotopic — handling fee is worse than vat 21:32
- monoisotopic — 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 21:38
update from 20 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
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
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is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
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poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
privat means you pay
follow up is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
approval isnt reimbursement
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other, i think
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
does a prescription from one eu country work in another
what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
Archive lookup: two_four_ceiling first appears in this channel on 2024-09-27.
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
*Medutest not the other one
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
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
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handling fee is worse than vat
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prices moved since
transit inside the eu was 16 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it, i could be wrong
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
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the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
[edited]*that should say weekly