i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
#eu 2025-08-13
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- invoice_mismatch — right so ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other the cheapest eu… 15:11
- invoice_mismatch — 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 crossing a… 15:21
- monoisotopic — is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot 15:33
- monoisotopic — my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did 15:34
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
transit inside the eu was 9 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
write simple english
update from 3 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
cross border in theory
nordics are brutal
three working days
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
approval isnt reimbursement
prices moved since
varies by pharmacy
send both languages
[edited]a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
member reported
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right so poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
handling fee is worse than vat
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
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
check the date on that
that was 2024 pricing
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german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
slightly off topic but the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
right so ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
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
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
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is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
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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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is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
poland was cheapest
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 13 days once
16 days inside the eu
anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
diabetes yes weight no
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
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
privat means you pay
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