how much of what we believe about Apotheke actually comes from pharmacy threads
how much of what we believe about Apotheke actually comes from pharmacy threads. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete. On cross-border prescriptions, since the assumption behind half these threads is wrong. There are EU rules on the recognition of prescriptions issued in another…
Left up. It names the member state and the pack size, which is all we ask of a pricing post.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
This is the split the whole board depends on. Authorisation is European; payment is national.
This is the split the whole board depends on.
renal_outcomes_r is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
ask for the Beipackzettel or the local equivalent, it answers most questions
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
Agreed that pharmacy margin regulation explains a lot of the price differences people find mysterious.
This. The published reimbursement criteria are the document to read, and most member states do publish them.
the language barrier is a real cost and nobody budgets for it
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Have you read the published reimbursement criteria where you are?