[Discussion] can we stop arguing about EU until somebody posts a number
can we stop arguing about EU until somebody posts a number — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am. Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to.…
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
keep the prescription and the receipt, both matter for claims
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.
Same. Naming the country in the first line would fix most of the bad advice on this board.
Same.
Adding the practical step — read your own country’s published criteria. They exist and they are definitive.
Same.
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
Correcting myself upthread: the criterion I quoted was updated for this year.
Is this a cross-border question or a domestic one?
the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.