the reimbursement thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
the reimbursement thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. Making the case below, and I expect to lose some of it in the comments.
Asked in my own language at a local pharmacy and got a clearer answer in five minutes than a fortnight of forum reading.
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.
Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems
Cosigning on cross-border prescriptions. The rules exist and they are narrower than the summaries suggest.
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a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
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.
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.
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
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