reading pharmacy threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
reading pharmacy threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly. Change my mind, genuinely — I have no stake in being right about this. A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am. Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty…
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
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Yes. Pack sizes differ enough that per-month price comparisons across borders need to be normalised before they mean anything.
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
Yes — keep both the prescription and the receipt. Claims processes ask for both and never at a convenient moment.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Left up. It names the member state and the pack size, which is all we ask of a pricing post.
Careful, that guidance is from a different country and this thread is asking about somewhere else entirely.
Correcting myself upthread: the criterion I quoted was updated for this year.
Correcting myself upthread: the criterion I quoted was updated for this year.
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
Small fix — those two prices are for different pack sizes, which accounts for most of the gap.
reimbursement is national, not European, and that is the whole board