Apotheke — 10 things I got wrong before I got it right
Apotheke — 10 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.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and eligibility questions have national answers that a pharmacist where you live can give you in minutes.
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the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
Right, and a shortage notice in one country tells you very little about the next one along.
the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets 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.
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
Yes. Pack sizes differ enough that per-month price comparisons across borders need to be normalised before they mean anything.
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
Is this a cross-border question or a domestic one?
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
What pack size is that price for?
That is an authorisation question and you have answered a reimbursement one. They are decided by different bodies.
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
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
a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
say which country or the thread is useless
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