how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
#eu 2025-09-22
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- vienna_vial — the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private… 21:59
- gip_glp_gil — transit inside the eu was 6 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it 22:41
- karl_fischer — can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another 23:03
- vienna_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 23:08
- amsterdam_aliquot — update from 26 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway 23:21
slightly off topic but 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
23 days inside the eu
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
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
prices moved since
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
member reported
privat means you pay
that was 2024 pricing
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
quick one any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
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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
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
transit inside the eu was 6 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
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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
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 14 days once, ill dig out the number
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handling fee is worse than vat
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can you legally buy in one eu country and take it to another
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cross border in theory
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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poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
for the archive a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
update from 26 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
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a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
check the date on that
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as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more, i have it written down somewhere
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