[Meta] the Apotheke rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the Apotheke rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining — posting the reasoning in public because a policy you cannot inspect is just a preference. Published reimbursement criteria exist in most member states and are usually available in the national language. They are the authoritative answer to…
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.
Disagree. That is one member state’s reimbursement rule and it does not generalise across the union.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
pharmacy margins are regulated differently in each country
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
pharmacy margins are regulated differently in each country
bilal_adebayo 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.