chirpy Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 From this month your prescriptions will be changed to a generic type.If you want the original specified by your DOCTER then you will have to pay and I believe you can claim back the cost from CPAMIs this correct?I assume you will be repaid the price of the cheaper drug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 I rather fancy that the CPAM may not as they are fed up with paying out for expensive medicines when the generics are perfectly good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert the InfoGipsy Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 I was listening to a piece about this on the radio the other day. There is no stated policy of enforcing a 100% switch to generics, but the authorities are aiming in the 80% range, where generics are available.The news item was triggered by a pharmacy that was deregistered for a month because they were consistently dispensing less that 50% generics when the other one in the town was hitting the 80% + figure. This is only the second time ever that a pharmacist has been disciplined in this way.I used to work for one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the world (Glaxo), with a wide portfolio of patented drugs. Once a popular drug came out of its patent period it was usuallly cloned by one or more generic manufacturers pretty quickly. Glaxo were not happy about that, but I never heard any statements to the effect that properly manufactured generics were not as good as the original. I am on permanent prescriptions for four drugs. Three of them I receive as generics, but the fourth is not available in my particular presentation except from the original manufacturer, so I get that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Well, many of the generics' companies are owned by the big drug companies. Some doctors are very prejudiced either through conviction or because they have taken the "shilling" of the drug company reps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormanH Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 I thought this had been in place since July :si vous refusez que votre pharmacien substitue un médicament générique au médicament de marque indiqué sur votre ordonnance, vous ne bénéficiez plus du « tiers payant » ni même de la transmission électronique de votre feuille de soins.Vous devrez faire l'avance des frais et le pharmacien établira une feuille de soins papier pour les médicaments pour lesquels vous avez refusé la substitution. Vous devrez compléter cette feuille de soins papier avec les vignettes des médicaments délivrés. Vous l'adresserez ensuite, accompagnée du double de l'ordonnance, à votre caisse d'Assurance Maladie pour vous faire rembourser. Le délai du remboursement sera donc plus long, compte tenu du temps nécessaire au traitement de votre feuille de soins.http://www.ameli.fr/assures/soins-et-remboursements/combien-serez-vous-rembourse/medicaments-et-vaccins/remboursement-des-medicaments-et-tiers-payant/medicaments-generiques-et-tiers-payant.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybanana Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 But doctors can still insist on non-generics, Norman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pommier Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Our doctor prescribes non generic drugs, but the pharmacy puts a sticker on the prescription 'replaced by generic'. They used to ask if we were happy to have the generic (we were), but don't ask any more. Some drugs are dispensed as the original, presumably because there isn't an equivalent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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