no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
#eu 2025-10-04
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Highlights from this day
- blank_run — poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago 20:04
- blank_run — i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling 20:15
- knees_first — the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix 21:12
- knees_first — nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget 21:56
- blank_run — what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu 22:04
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
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
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
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any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
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i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not, thats just me
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
while im here is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
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 - 260anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
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
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
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handling fee is worse than vat
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ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
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
24 days inside the eu
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
diabetes yes weight no
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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prices moved since
[edited]quick one how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
transit inside the eu was 22 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
check the date on that
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
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german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
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nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
follow up how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
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update from 14 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
unrelated but parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly