the prescription thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
Something I keep coming back to: the prescription thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down.
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Marketing authorisation is granted centrally for these products; reimbursement, pricing and prescribing criteria are national competences. Those are decided by different bodies with different processes.
Asked in my own language at a local pharmacy and got a clearer answer in five minutes than a fortnight of forum reading.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as a national price. The variation within a country is often larger than between them.
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
This. The published reimbursement criteria are the document to read, and most member states do publish them.
That is an authorisation question and you have answered a reimbursement one. They are decided by different bodies.
Yes — keep both the prescription and the receipt. Claims processes ask for both and never at a convenient moment.
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Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them.
EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
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