nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
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#eu 2026-01-25
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- amsterdam_aliquot — nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported 09:39
- rezept_rolf — a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries, still working it out 14:30
- vienna_vial — i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling 14:33
follow up the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
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nordics are brutal
check the date on that
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 19 days once
[edited]has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
approval isnt reimbursement
right so how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
update from 20 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget, we shall see
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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
Digest for the week of 2025-03-09 has been published.
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early, ymmv
privat means you pay
poland was cheapest
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
my last customs bill was about twenty two percent of declared value plus a fixed handling charge that hurt more than the tax did, i could be wrong
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
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 honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
how do you deal with a supplier whose support is in one language only
[edited]member reported
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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
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
ema approval means licensed but not that anyone pays for it, is that the right way round
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that was 2024 pricing
slightly off topic but does a prescription from one eu country work in another
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries, still working it out
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i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling
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ok so 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
is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot