20 days inside the eu
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 - 260my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
poland was cheapest
send both languages
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
update from 11 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
nordics are brutal
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
approval isnt reimbursement
quick one 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
that was 2024 pricing
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 22 days once
privat means you pay
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
does a prescription from one eu country work in another
unrelated but translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
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
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
coming back after 25 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
prices moved since
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
check the date on that
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
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
varies by pharmacy
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
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
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year, someone check my working
follow up 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
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
Archive lookup: madrid_mg first appears in this channel on 2024-10-06.
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu