[Question] how do you actually verify prescription
how do you actually verify prescription. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.
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.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
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.
Marketing authorisation is granted centrally for these products; reimbursement, pricing and prescribing criteria are national competences.
mei_cardoso is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
Which member state?
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
pharmacy margins are regulated differently in each country
the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets for it
Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems
The structure that makes this board make sense, once.
Marketing authorisation for these products is granted centrally, which is why the same product exists across the union. Everything after that — whether it is reimbursed, on what criteria, at what price, in what pack size, dispensed under what margin rules — is decided nationally.
So "is it covered" has twenty-seven answers, "what does it cost" has twenty-seven answers plus within-country variation, and only "is it authorised" has one. Almost every argument on this board is two people answering different questions from different countries, both correctly.
Yes — keep both the prescription and the receipt. Claims processes ask for both and never at a convenient moment.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
Cosigning on cross-border prescriptions. The rules exist and they are narrower than the summaries suggest.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
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