coming back after 3 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
#eu 2026-02-22
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- monoisotopic — i was wrong about the cross border prescription rules and a pharmacist corrected me in person, which was humbling 19:24
- amylin_amy — the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix 20:25
- monoisotopic — coming back to this the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does, anyway 20:36
- amylin_amy — parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly 20:50
- amylin_amy — 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 20:53
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
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 20 days once
[edited]the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other
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check the date on that
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send both languages
how far ahead do people order given transit inside the eu
21 days inside the eu
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what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
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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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Digest for the week of 2025-12-05 has been published.
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
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, i think
nordics are brutal
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
germany, whats the actual difference in cost between a private and a statutory prescription
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
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 - 260is the price the same across pharmacies in a country or does it vary a lot
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
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is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
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handling fee is worse than vat
is carrying it in a suitcase inside the eu a problem
coming back to this the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does, anyway
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that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu, for what its worth
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translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
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varies by pharmacy
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 sweden or denmark want to compare notes
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
nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year, for what its worth
transit inside the eu was 20 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
that was 2024 pricing
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
cross border in theory