cross border in theory
#eu 2025-12-06
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- VialBot — Archive lookup: gip_glp_gil first appears in this channel on 2025-06-10. 20:50
- fasting_insulin — 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 21:40
- fasting_insulin — unrelated but 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 21:49
- blank_run — handling fee is worse than vat 22:40
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
[edited]how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
follow up a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
genuine question how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 11 days once
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries, not advice obviously
follow up poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
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prices moved since
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy, not advice obviously
is the customs handling fee worse than the vat itself
write simple english
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any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
poland was cheapest
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has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
varies by pharmacy
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 - 260nordics are brutal
what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
[edited]sorry to jump in pharmacy prices in germany were fairly uniform when i checked because of how they are regulated. in spain they varied much more
for the archive the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget, i could be wrong
privat means you pay
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year, ymmv
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
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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nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
unrelated but 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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i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
[edited]germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
that was 2024 pricing
how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
anyone in the netherlands able to say what theyre paying
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
approval isnt reimbursement
transit inside the eu was 22 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
update from 5 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
three working days
handling fee is worse than vat
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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
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
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
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
genuine question is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
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anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago