[Discussion] the EU advice in here is 3 years out of date
Thinking out loud about this: the EU advice in here is 3 years out of date. 3 years — those are the numbers, and they are the ones I am willing to defend. Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and eligibility questions have national answers that a pharmacist where you live can give you in minutes. Compared prices…
a prescription from one member state is not automatically valid in another
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
Is the prescription from the same country as the pharmacy?
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
This is the split the whole board depends on. Authorisation is European; payment is national.
a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them.
keep the prescription and the receipt, both matter for claims