Poland: prescription, and what it actually costs here
Thinking out loud about this: Poland: prescription, and what it actually costs here. 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. Both were requested. The translation cost…
Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as a national price. The variation within a country is often larger than between them.
Careful, that guidance is from a different country and this thread is asking about somewhere else entirely.
say which country or the thread is useless
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a prescription from one member state is not automatically valid in another
Is the prescription from the same country as the pharmacy?
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
private pricing varies enormously between neighbouring countries
the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
That is an authorisation question and you have answered a reimbursement one. They are decided by different bodies.
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
This is the split the whole board depends on. Authorisation is European; payment is national.
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.