the pharmacy question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
the pharmacy question that gets asked weekly, answered properly. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
Right, and a shortage notice in one country tells you very little about the next one along.
Pharmacy link removed. No links of any kind here, in any country, for any reason.
Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.
Yes. Pack sizes differ enough that per-month price comparisons across borders need to be normalised before they mean anything.
private pricing varies enormously between neighbouring countries
Push back: comparing headline prices across countries without normalising pack size is comparing two different quantities.
Is the prescription from the same country as the pharmacy?
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
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This. The published reimbursement criteria are the document to read, and most member states do publish them.
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
Correcting myself upthread: the criterion I quoted was updated for this year.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
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