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
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- karl_fischer — has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this 22:43
- madrid_mg — quick one 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,… 23:24
- karl_fischer — while im here how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only 23:37
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
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coming back after 17 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
coming back to this translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
[edited]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 order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 5 days once
prices moved since
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approval isnt reimbursement
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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
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
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
send both languages
spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more, ymmv
update from 3 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
quick one 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, take that with a pinch of salt
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 - 260👀12👍2🤝4
diabetes yes weight no
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
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for the archive how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
transit inside the eu was 14 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it, ask me again in a month
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
while im here how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
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coming back to this that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
[edited]unrelated but german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap