[Discussion] we are measuring EU at the wrong time and calling it noise
Thinking out loud about this: we are measuring EU at the wrong time and calling it noise.
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.
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally. Eligibility questions have national answers we cannot give.
Is the prescription from the same country as the pharmacy?
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
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say which country or the thread is useless
Careful, that guidance is from a different country and this thread is asking about somewhere else entirely.
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.
Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.
Are you comparing the same presentation, or different pack sizes?
Right, and a shortage notice in one country tells you very little about the next one along.
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
Not convinced — cross-border prescription recognition is narrower than you are describing and the exceptions matter.
Push back: comparing headline prices across countries without normalising pack size is comparing two different quantities.
This. The published reimbursement criteria are the document to read, and most member states do publish them.
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets for it
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
Correcting myself upthread: the criterion I quoted was updated for this year.
Yes — keep both the prescription and the receipt. Claims processes ask for both and never at a convenient moment.
a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them
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