poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
#eu 2026-03-09
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- karl_fischer — the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither 13:56
- VialBot — Batch lookup F-1330: 8 independent reports on file, earliest 2025-05-05. 15:00
- karl_fischer — a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy, take that with a pinch of salt 15:30
- rezept_rolf — ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other translate your message… 15:50
- warsaw_vial — 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 17:52
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
follow up i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
update on the earlier thing the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
8 days inside the eu
prices moved since
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu, i could be wrong
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
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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pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
poland was cheapest
anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
coming back after 9 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
follow up my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
Batch lookup F-1330: 8 independent reports on file, earliest 2025-05-05.
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy, take that with a pinch of salt
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i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had 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
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
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
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 20 days once, i have it written down somewhere
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
member reported, still working it out
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
[edited]poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
that was 2024 pricing
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
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
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
varies by pharmacy
does a prescription from one eu country work in another