three years of Apotheke threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
three years of Apotheke threads, summarised so you do not have to read them, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
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.
Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
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.
Asked in my own language at a local pharmacy and got a clearer answer in five minutes than a fortnight of forum reading.
Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems
Right, and a shortage notice in one country tells you very little about the next one along.
ask for the Beipackzettel or the local equivalent, it answers most questions
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and eligibility questions have national answers that a pharmacist where you live can give you in minutes.
Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and eligibility questions have national answers that a pharmacist where you live can give you in minutes.
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
say which country or the thread is useless
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
camila_marchand is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
Cosigning on cross-border prescriptions. The rules exist and they are narrower than the summaries suggest.
Agreed that pharmacy margin regulation explains a lot of the price differences people find mysterious.
Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.
This. The published reimbursement criteria are the document to read, and most member states do publish them.
the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets for it
Not convinced — cross-border prescription recognition is narrower than you are describing and the exceptions matter.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
Same. Naming the country in the first line would fix most of the bad advice on this board.
That is an authorisation question and you have answered a reimbursement one. They are decided by different bodies.
keep the prescription and the receipt, both matter for claims
Yes. Pack sizes differ enough that per-month price comparisons across borders need to be normalised before they mean anything.
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.
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
This is the split the whole board depends on. Authorisation is European; payment is national.
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
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