[Country] DE — Apotheke pricing, Rezept process, what off-label actually costs
DE — Apotheke pricing, Rezept process, what off-label actually costs, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it. Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested. The structure that makes this board make sense, once. Marketing…
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 member state, and they are conditional: the prescription has to meet requirements about its form and content, certain categories are excluded, and pharmacies retain discretion in practice.
The result is that "my prescription will be accepted anywhere in the EU" is not a safe assumption, and members here have discovered it at a counter in another country. If it matters for a trip, check before you travel with the pharmacy and with somebody qualified where you are. Nothing on this board is advice about that, and the rules are national in their application whatever the framework says.
On cross-border prescriptions, since the assumption behind half these threads is wrong.
Adding the practical step — read your own country’s published criteria. They exist and they are definitive.
Adding the practical step — read your own country’s published criteria.
Disagreeing with this bit: that criterion belongs to one member state and is being quoted as general.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
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EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
Agreed that pharmacy margin regulation explains a lot of the price differences people find mysterious.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.