quick one does a prescription from one eu country work in another
#eu 2026-03-08
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- lyophile_liv — nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early 20:59
- snac_and_water — ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round 21:20
- snac_and_water — genuine question anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly 21:28
- peak_split — no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from 21:41
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 25 days once
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
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
varies by pharmacy
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other, 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
three working days
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
approval isnt reimbursement
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
cross border in theory
check the date on that
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privat means you pay
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nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
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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
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
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ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
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genuine question anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
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has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
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
that was 2024 pricing
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
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