ok so ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
#eu 2026-01-18
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- reship_rita — for the archive a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries 22:38
- reship_rita — how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu 22:45
- VialBot — Digest for the week of 2025-11-07 has been published. 22:47
- monoisotopic — nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early 23:15
coming back to this no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
that was 2024 pricing
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year, i could be wrong
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
check the date on that
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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
for the archive a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
prices moved since
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
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
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
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Digest for the week of 2025-11-07 has been published.
update from 3 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
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transit inside the eu was 18 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
right so parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
quick one i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
for the archive does a prescription from one eu country work in another
25 days inside the eu
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, from memory
write simple english
sorry to jump in a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
unrelated but poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
poland was cheapest
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither, anyway
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
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anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
coming back to this how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
privat means you pay
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
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
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 17 days once
varies by pharmacy
approval isnt reimbursement
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms