translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
#eu 2025-11-08
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- karl_fischer — a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries 22:23
- fasting_insulin — transit inside the eu was 6 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it 22:59
- fasting_insulin — 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 23:07
- karl_fischer — pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more my last customs bill was about twenty… 23:19
handling fee is worse than vat
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
diabetes yes weight no
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 - 260member reported
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, take that with a pinch of salt
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 22 days once
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy, for what its worth
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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
nordics are brutal
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 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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follow up 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
follow up any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
approval isnt reimbursement
write simple english
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
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follow up spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
cross border in theory
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7 days inside the eu
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
prices moved since
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, for what its worth
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
does a prescription from one eu country work in another
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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
update from 14 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
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transit inside the eu was 6 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
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poland was cheapest
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 have it written down somewhere
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
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is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
varies by pharmacy
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
Batch lookup D-0718: 7 independent reports on file, earliest 2025-07-06.
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
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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ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
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