update on the earlier thing anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
#eu 2026-04-09
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Highlights from this day
- verify_or_dont — poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago 22:00
- verify_or_dont — has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this 22:36
- peak_split — german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024 22:50
- VialBot — Reminder for warsaw_vial: dose day is today. Set 9 days ago. 23:02
- fridge_thermo — how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated.… 23:23
nordics are brutal
follow up what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
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send both languages
follow up a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy, thats one data point
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
write simple english
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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, from memory
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
while im here how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
slightly off topic but has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
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 - 260any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 24 days once
*week 31 not week 5
sorry to jump in what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
three working days
transit inside the eu was 20 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu, ask me again in a month
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
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
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
prices moved since
check the date on that
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
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spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly, from memory
diabetes yes weight no
does a prescription from one eu country work in another
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
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ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other, we shall see
6 days inside the eu
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the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
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
Reminder for warsaw_vial: dose day is today. Set 9 days ago.
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anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
update from 5 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
for the archive 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
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
that was 2024 pricing
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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
[edited]how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
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no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
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is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
approval isnt reimbursement
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a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
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