[Meta] proposal — a flair for prescription posts
proposal — a flair for prescription posts, and here is what changes in practice if it goes ahead.
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
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.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
ask for the Beipackzettel or the local equivalent, it answers most questions
That is an authorisation question and you have answered a reimbursement one. They are decided by different bodies.
That is an authorisation question and you have answered a reimbursement one.
hydration_hank is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.
Have you read the published reimbursement criteria where you are?
Yes — keep both the prescription and the receipt. Claims processes ask for both and never at a convenient moment.
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
Push back: comparing headline prices across countries without normalising pack size is comparing two different quantities.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
Country added to the title — the answers differ across the union and the thread is unusable without it.
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
Same. Naming the country in the first line would fix most of the bad advice on this board.
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