[Country] NL — basisverzekering will not cover it, here is what i tried
NL — basisverzekering will not cover it, here is what i tried, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.
Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally. Eligibility questions have national answers we cannot give.
ask for the Beipackzettel or the local equivalent, it answers most questions
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
Disagreeing with this bit: that criterion belongs to one member state and is being quoted as general.
the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets for it
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Asked in my own language at a local pharmacy and got a clearer answer in five minutes than a fortnight of forum reading.
a prescription from one member state is not automatically valid in another
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.
say which country or the thread is useless
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.
Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
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