right so the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
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- coa_or_cope — can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another 21:07
- coa_or_cope — right so i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling 21:35
- VialBot — Testing queue: 5 submissions open, 92 awaiting dispatch. 21:50
- area_percent — coming back after 3 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere 22:28
- cat_on_the_tray — 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, not… 22:32
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
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diabetes yes weight no
how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
write simple english
unrelated but ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
varies by pharmacy
how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
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unrelated but no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
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how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did, for what its worth
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
right so i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
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 - 260sorry to jump in the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
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update on the earlier thing is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
Testing queue: 5 submissions open, 92 awaiting dispatch.
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a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more, thats just me
update from 17 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway, not advice obviously
right so i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
coming back after 3 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
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as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
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
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, not advice obviously
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the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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does a prescription from one eu country work in another
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries