nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
#eu 2025-05-09
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- comment_fatigue — no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and… 11:50
- fasting_insulin — 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 11:53
- amylin_amy — handling fee is worse than vat 12:25
- VialBot — Digest for the week of 2025-02-09 has been published. 13:46
- comment_fatigue — i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not 14:33
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
[edited]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
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 - 260comment_fatiguecrossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how…
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
handling fee is worse than vat
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a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
[edited]germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
approval isnt reimbursement
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
write simple english
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
Digest for the week of 2025-02-09 has been published.
privat means you pay
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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
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
*Janoshik not the other one
update on the earlier thing parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
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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nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
does a prescription from one eu country work in another
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 25 days once
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
check the date on that
varies by pharmacy
three working days