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c/glp1aus·posted 5 months ago by u/ffmi_watcher

Poland: shortage, and what it actually costs here

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Poland: shortage, and what it actually costs here. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down.

Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.

Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.

Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.

Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.

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u/laila_dumitru146 points·5 months ago

The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached. It is public, searchable, and consistently more accurate than reporting about it.

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u/copay_card_cc70 points·5 months ago

The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached.

Adding the quickest step — ask the pharmacist to check the wholesaler.

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u/lyophile_lou43 points·5 months ago

Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly

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u/ffmi_watcherOP36 points·5 months ago·edited

What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?

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u/tuva_kirchner13 points·5 months ago

say which state only if it matters, but always say which country

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u/chidi_abubakar54 points·5 months ago

the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication

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u/zeynep_zielinski95 points·5 months ago

Right, and the compounded supply position moved. Threads from two years ago are describing a different situation.

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u/blunt_coldbox_202477 points·5 months ago

Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.

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u/erez_perrin19 points·5 months ago·edited

Same. Private pricing varies here as much as anywhere and people assume it is fixed.

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u/noor_hovland15 points·5 months ago

private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too

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u/arne_ndiaye-11 points·5 months ago

Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.

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u/laila_dumitru1 point·5 months ago·edited

Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.

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u/ismael_pires75 points·5 months ago

compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up

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u/ffmi_watcherOP34 points·5 months ago

Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.

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u/honest_syringe3327 points·5 months ago

ask the pharmacy to check the wholesaler rather than guessing

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u/hedda_adeyemi22 points·5 months ago

Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.

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u/ffmi_watcher11 points·5 months ago

Agreed that the published criteria are the authority. They are searchable and most people never look.

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u/dario_bakken17 points·5 months ago

Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.

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u/freya_baptista59 points·5 months ago

That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.

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u/erez_perrin36 points·5 months ago

Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.

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u/nl_verzekering54 points·5 months ago

The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.

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u/amara_kuipers0 points·5 months ago

Personal importation provisions exist, are narrow, and carry conditions. Any summary of them here should be checked against the current official wording rather than a forum post.

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u/no_refunds_nr1 point·5 months ago

This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.

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u/jarno_cabrera0 points·5 months ago

This.

Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.

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u/ffmi_watcherOP1 point·5 months ago

keep the script and the receipt for private health claims

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u/tomas_kimani1 point·5 months ago·edited

Personal importation provisions exist, are narrow, and carry conditions.

This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.

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u/clara_weiss1 point·5 months ago·edited

That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.

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u/renal_outcomes_rnephro-curious1 point·5 months ago

Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.

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