[Meta] the Apotheke rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the Apotheke rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining — posting the reasoning in public because a policy you cannot inspect is just a preference. Published reimbursement criteria exist in most member states and are usually available in the national language. They are the authoritative answer to…
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
What does the local patient information leaflet say?
say which country or the thread is useless
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them