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#eu 2025-01-11

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  • invoice_mismatch — i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 8 days once a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in… 20:28
  • lyophile_liv — handling fee is worse than vat 21:02
  • invoice_mismatch — 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 the cheapest eu route a… 21:35
  • amylin_amy — 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 in germany the split… 22:07
IM

i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 8 days once
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

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any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today

send both languages

LL

a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year

the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year

poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago, we shall see

AA

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
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

AA

ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other

AA

pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more

is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap

AA

follow up a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that