[Country] NL — basisverzekering will not cover it, here is what i tried
NL — basisverzekering will not cover it, here is what i tried, and I am aware this is a minority view on this board. Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them. The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the…
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.
Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
The translation cost of dealing with a foreign pharmacy was the thing I had not budgeted for.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays