[PSA] prescription is not what most of this community thinks it is
prescription is not what most of this community thinks it is. Two minutes of reading now saves an argument later.
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
Published reimbursement criteria exist in most member states and are usually available in the national language. They are the authoritative answer to eligibility questions that this board can only guess at.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
a prescription from one member state is not automatically valid in another
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
This is the split the whole board depends on. Authorisation is European; payment is national.
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cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
Cross-border prescription recognition exists under EU rules but is conditional and narrower than commonly assumed, with requirements about the prescri
Adding the practical step — read your own country’s published criteria. They exist and they are definitive.
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Agreed that pharmacy margin regulation explains a lot of the price differences people find mysterious.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Disagreeing with this bit: that criterion belongs to one member state and is being quoted as general.
Disagreeing with this bit: that criterion belongs to one member state and is being quoted as general.
ignacio_vanhecke is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them.
say which country or the thread is useless
Not convinced — cross-border prescription recognition is narrower than you are describing and the exceptions matter.
Marketing authorisation is granted centrally for these products; reimbursement, pricing and prescribing criteria are national competences. Those are decided by different bodies with different processes.
the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets for it
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
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