how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
#eu 2025-09-10
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- rezept_rolf — 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, from memory 13:10
- gip_glp_gil — anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying 13:59
- cat_on_the_tray — 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 15:05
- fibre_first — a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy 16:13
- VialBot — Purity check: no report on file for lot KP-0925. Nothing logged either way. 18:00
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, from memory
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germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year, take that with a pinch of salt
sorry to jump in the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither, ask me again in a month
right so a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
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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
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anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
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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
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year, thats one data point
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
has anyone found a national scheme that actually covers this
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy 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
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follow up i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
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follow up you can carry a personal quantity between eu countries in practice. the rules on quantity and prescription vary and i would not rely on my reading of them
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nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
that was 2024 pricing
right so german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
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
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nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
check the date on that
handling fee is worse than vat
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
[edited]for the archive pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more, i could be wrong
*PeptideMeter not the other one
privat means you pay
transit inside the eu was 11 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it