the prescription question that gets asked weekly, answered properly
The title is the argument: the prescription question that gets asked weekly, answered properly. Here is the rest of it.
Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
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.
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
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Have you read the published reimbursement criteria where you are?
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
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.
Are you comparing the same presentation, or different pack sizes?
say which country or the thread is useless
say which country or the thread is useless
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
Agreed that pharmacy margin regulation explains a lot of the price differences people find mysterious.
Not convinced — cross-border prescription recognition is narrower than you are describing and the exceptions matter.
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
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.
Yes. Pack sizes differ enough that per-month price comparisons across borders need to be normalised before they mean anything.
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally. Eligibility questions have national answers we cannot give.
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