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#eu 2025-09-14

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  • lead_time_lars — 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 22:25
  • gip_glp_gil — a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries 22:47
  • lead_time_lars — is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself 22:57
  • VialBot — Digest for the week of 2024-10-26 has been published. 23:21
LT

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

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is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot

cross border in theory

GG

quick one what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms

WV

i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not

GG

a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries

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LT

ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
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

is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself

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MM

how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu

MM

i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling

is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap

the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year

VB

Digest for the week of 2024-10-26 has been published.

MM

crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it

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

*i meant subcutaneous