german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
#eu 2026-02-03
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- fasting_insulin — is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you… 10:21
- group_buy_gwen — right so has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it 11:42
- madrid_mg — handling fee is worse than vat 12:23
- madrid_mg — i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 26 days once, happy to be corrected 14:45
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
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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crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
Assay note: BCH lot D-0718 reported at 98.6% of label content.
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
group_buy_gwencrossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how…
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more, for what its worth
unrelated but a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
sorry to jump in 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
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
right so has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
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is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
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
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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
spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
handling fee is worse than vat
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a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
three working days
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right so how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
diabetes yes weight no
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
update from 6 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu, i have it written down somewhere
privat means you pay
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
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
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 26 days once, happy to be corrected
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poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
cross border in theory
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries, we shall see
[edited]my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
[edited]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