as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
#eu 2025-12-03
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Highlights from this day
- retention_time — transit inside the eu was 18 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it 20:10
- warsaw_vial — anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly 20:23
- amsterdam_aliquot — the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year 20:34
- blank_run — follow up poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago 21:03
- deadspace — quick one germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription 21:52
transit inside the eu was 18 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
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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
pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more, ask me again in a month
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anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
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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
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
[edited]the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
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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
is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
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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, for what its worth
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is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
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is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
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
follow up poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
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i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
cross border in theory
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the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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
diabetes yes weight no
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, your mileage will differ
Reminder set. I will post here in 3 days.
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a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
quick one germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
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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, thats just me
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
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that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu, we shall see
three working days
22 days inside the eu
quick one anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
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
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
prices moved since
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024
nordics are brutal
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
Reminder set. I will post here in 9 days.
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix