[Country] SE/NO/DK — Norway is the outlier and not in a good way
SE/NO/DK — Norway is the outlier and not in a good way. It is the sort of thing everyone half-believes and nobody writes down. 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. Pack sizes and…
the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
Have you read the published reimbursement criteria where you are?
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems
Yes. Pack sizes differ enough that per-month price comparisons across borders need to be normalised before they mean anything.
Correcting myself upthread: the criterion I quoted was updated for this year.