pharmacy — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right
pharmacy — 20 things I got wrong before I got it right, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board.
Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.
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.
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
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.
private pricing varies enormously between neighbouring countries
What pack size is that price for?
a prescription from one member state is not automatically valid in another
the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
Country added to the title — the answers differ across the union and the thread is unusable without it.
Country added to the title — the answers differ across the union and the thread is unusable without it.
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
What does the local patient information leaflet say?
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
Not convinced — cross-border prescription recognition is narrower than you are describing and the exceptions matter.
say which country or the thread is useless
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
Have you read the published reimbursement criteria where you are?
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
ask for the Beipackzettel or the local equivalent, it answers most questions
Right, and a shortage notice in one country tells you very little about the next one along.
Reimbursed or private?
a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them
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 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.
gallbladder_gary is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as a national price. The variation within a country is often larger than between them.
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