[Question] the UK — has anyone got a straight answer on reimbursement
the UK — has anyone got a straight answer on reimbursement, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
The structure that makes this board make sense, once.
Marketing authorisation for these products is granted centrally, which is why the same product exists across the union. Everything after that — whether it is reimbursed, on what criteria, at what price, in what pack size, dispensed under what margin rules — is decided nationally.
So "is it covered" has twenty-seven answers, "what does it cost" has twenty-seven answers plus within-country variation, and only "is it authorised" has one. Almost every argument on this board is two people answering different questions from different countries, both correctly.
Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
Supply notices are issued nationally.
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
This. The published reimbursement criteria are the document to read, and most member states do publish them.
Have you read the published reimbursement criteria where you are?
Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems
a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them
Cross-border prescription recognition exists under EU rules but is conditional and narrower than commonly assumed, with requirements about the prescription’s form and content.
Right, and a shortage notice in one country tells you very little about the next one along.
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
Correcting myself upthread: the criterion I quoted was updated for this year.
Disagree. That is one member state’s reimbursement rule and it does not generalise across the union.
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