anyone had a german pharmacy order it in and how long did that take
#eu 2026-06-20
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- karl_fischer — that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu 18:45
- peak_split — 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 20:06
- fasting_insulin — 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, ill dig out the number 21:00
- karl_fischer — as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it 21:46
4 days inside the eu
that is the thing people get wrong constantly. approved and paid for are two completely different processes in the eu
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coming back to this the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix
update from 16 months ago: nothing changed on reimbursement where i am and the price went up anyway
no local insurance means the pharmacy price, full stop, in every country a member has reported from
genuine question translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
cross border in theory
privat means you pay
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diabetes yes weight no
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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
[edited]parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
check the date on that
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handling fee is worse than vat
anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
write simple english
crossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how comfortable they are with it
unrelated 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
the language barrier with support is real. i write in short plain english and it works better than good english does
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prices moved since
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
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
the honest position is that eu reimbursement is a moving target and nothing said in here stays true for a year
member reported
transit inside the eu was 15 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
three working days
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
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is there anywhere in the eu where this is actually cheap
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what happens if a parcel gets picked up entering the eu
how does a pharmacy handle it if you have no local insurance at all
nordics are brutal
lead_time_larscrossing a border to buy it happens and people are quiet about it, which tells you how…
german pharmacies will order in what they do not stock. mine took three working days when i asked in 2024, someone check my working
send both languages
nordic pricing genuinely was higher in every comparison i have seen here, and the incomes are higher too, which people forget
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
does a prescription from one eu country work in another
how are people managing when support only speaks one language and it isnt yours
anyone compared the price for the same dose in two eu countries properly
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, ill dig out the number
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what does privat versus kassenrezept mean in money terms
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nobody here can tell you what is legal in your country and the mods stop that conversation early
a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that, thats one data point
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
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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
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 22 days once
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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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as of about a year ago statutory cover in germany for weight indications still was not there, so check before quoting me on it
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 - 260spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
is it reimbursed anywhere in the eu or is it private everywhere
a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year, ask me again in a month
i keep a note of what i paid each month because the number moves and my memory of it does not
poland pricing, has anyone compared it against germany
coming back after 26 months, has anything changed on reimbursement anywhere
poland came out cheapest of the four countries members compared about eighteen months ago
poland was cheapest
ok so send both languages
approval isnt reimbursement
prices moved since
that was 2024 pricing
*that should say weekly