The cost effectiveness and budget impact of natalizumab for formulary inclusion

2009 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Bakhshai ◽  
Raymond Bleu-Lainé ◽  
Miah Jung ◽  
Jeanne Lim ◽  
Christian Reyes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Budget Impact ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Formulary Inclusion

scholarly journals Cost-Effectiveness and Budget Impact of Emerging Minimally Invasive Surgical Treatments for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Bilal Chughtai ◽  
Sirikan Rojanasarot ◽  
Kurt Neeser ◽  
Dmitry Gultyaev ◽  
Stacey L. Amorosi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia ◽  
Minimally Invasive ◽  
Budget Impact ◽  
Prostatic Hyperplasia ◽  
Minimally Invasive Surgical ◽  
Medication Costs ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Surgical Treatments ◽  
The Cost

Background: Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is one of the most prevalent and costly chronic conditions among middle-aged and elderly men. Prostatic urethral lift (PUL) and convective water vapor thermal therapy (WVTT) are emerging minimally invasive surgical treatments as an alternative to traditional treatment options for men with moderate-to-severe BPH. This study evaluated the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of PUL and WVTT for men with BPH using long-term clinical outcomes. Methods: The cost-effectiveness and budget impact models were developed from a US Medicare perspective over a 4-year time horizon. The models were populated with males with a mean age of 63 and an average International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) of 22. Clinical inputs were extracted from the LIFT and Rezum II randomized controlled trials at 4 years. Utility values were assigned using IPSS and BPH severity levels. Procedural, adverse event, retreatment, follow-up, and medication costs were based on 2019 Medicare payment rates and Medicare Part D drug spending. One-way and probabilistic sensitivity analyses (PSAs) were performed. Results: At 4 years, PUL was associated with greater retreatment rates (24.6% vs 10.9%), lower quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) (3.490 vs 3.548) and higher total costs (US$7393 vs US$2233) compared with WVTT, making WVTT the more effective and less costly treatment strategy. The 70% total cost difference of PUL and WVTT was predominantly driven by higher PUL procedural (US$5617 vs US$1689) and retreatment (US$976 vs US$257) costs. The PSA demonstrated that relative to PUL, WVTT yielded higher QALYs and lower costs 99% and 100% of the time, respectively. Conclusions: Compared to PUL, WVTT was a cost-effective and cost-saving treatment of moderate-to-severe BPH. These findings provide evidence for clinicians, payers, and health policy makers to help further define the role of minimally invasive surgical treatments for BPH.

scholarly journals The Cost-Effectiveness of Hepatitis C Virus Screening Strategies among Recently Arrived Migrants in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (17) ◽  
pp. 6091
Author(s):  
Mohamed N.M.T. Al Khayat ◽  
Job F.H. Eijsink ◽  
Maarten J. Postma ◽  
Jan C. Wilschut ◽  
Marinus van Hulst
Keyword(s):  
Hepatitis C Virus ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Hepatitis C ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Budget Impact ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Screening Strategies ◽  
Hcv Screening ◽  
The Cost

Objective: We aimed to assess the cost-effectiveness of hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening strategies among recently arrived migrants in the Netherlands. Methods: A Markov model was used to estimate the health effects and costs of HCV screening from the healthcare perspective. A cohort of 50,000 recently arrived migrants was used. In this cohort, three HCV screening strategies were evaluated: (i) no screening, (ii) screening of migrants from HCV-endemic countries and (iii) screening of all migrants. Results: Strategy (ii) screening of migrants from HCV-endemic countries compared to strategy (i) no screening, yielded an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of €971 per quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained. Strategy (iii) screening of all migrants compared with strategy (ii) screening of migrants from HCV-endemic countries yielded an ICER of €1005 per QALY gained. The budget impact of strategy (ii) screening of migrants from HCV-endemic countries and strategy (iii) screening of all migrants was €13,752,039 and €20,786,683, respectively. Conclusion: HCV screening is cost-effective. However, the budget impact may have a strong influence on decision making.

scholarly journals Handling Uncertainty in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis: Budget Impact and Risk Aversion

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1419
Author(s):  
Pedram Sendi ◽  
Klazien Matter-Walstra ◽  
Matthias Schwenkglenks
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Risk Aversion ◽  
Joint Distribution ◽  
Budget Impact ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Cost Effectiveness Analysis ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
North East ◽  
Effectiveness Analysis ◽  
The Cost

Methods to handle uncertainty in economic evaluation have gained much attention in the literature, and the cost-effectiveness acceptability curve (CEAC) is the most widely used method to summarise and present uncertainty associated with program costs and effects in cost-effectiveness analysis. Some researchers have emphasised the limitations of the CEAC for informing decision and policy makers, as the CEAC is insensitive to radial shifts of the joint distribution of incremental costs and effects in the North-East and South-West quadrants of the cost-effective plane (CEP). Furthermore, it has been pointed out that the CEAC does not incorporate risk-aversion in valuing uncertain costs and effects. In the present article, we show that the cost-effectiveness affordability curve (CEAFC) captures both dimensions of the joint distribution of incremental costs and effects on the CEP and is, therefore, sensitive to radial shifts of the joint distribution on the CEP. Furthermore, the CEAFC also informs about the budget impact of a new intervention, as it can be used to estimate the joint probability that an intervention is both affordable and cost-effective. Moreover, we show that the cost-effectiveness risk-aversion curve (CERAC) allows the analyst to incorporate different levels of risk-aversion into the analysis and can, therefore, be used to inform decision-makers who are risk-averse. We use data from a published cost-effectiveness model of palbociclib in addition to letrozole versus letrozole alone for the treatment of oestrogen-receptor positive, HER-2 negative, advanced breast cancer to demonstrate the differences between CEAC, CEAFC and CERAC, and show how these can jointly be used to inform decision and policy makers.

Cost-Effectiveness and Budget Impact of Emicizumab Prophylaxis in Haemophilia A Patients with Inhibitors

2019 ◽  
Vol 120 (02) ◽  
pp. 216-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Angelo Cortesi ◽  
Giancarlo Castaman ◽  
Gianluca Trifirò ◽  
Simona Serao Creazzola ◽  
Giovanni Improta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Cost Saving ◽  
Budget Impact ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Haemophilia A ◽  
Old Patients ◽  
Life Years ◽  
The Cost

AbstractRecent evidence demonstrated that weekly prophylaxis with subcutaneous bispecific antibody (emicizumab) has shown higher efficacy in adolescent and adults patients affected by haemophilia A (HA) with inhibitor, compared with patients treated on demand or on prophylaxis with bypassing agents (BPAs). However, no economic evaluations assessing the value and sustainability of emicizumab prophylaxis have been performed in Europe. This study assessed the cost-effectiveness of emicizumab prophylaxis compared with BPA prophylaxis and its possible budget impact from the Italian National Health Service (NHS) perspective. A Markov model and a budget impact model were developed to estimate the cost-effectiveness and budget impact of emicizumab prophylaxis in HA patients with inhibitors. The model was populated using treatment efficacy from clinical trials and key clinical, cost and epidemiological data retrieved through an extensive literature review. Compared with BPAs prophylaxis, emicizumab prophylaxis was found to be more effective (0.94 quality adjusted life-years) and cost saving (–€19.4/–€24.4 million per patient lifetime) in a cohort of 4-year-old patients with HA and inhibitors who failed immune tolerance induction. In the probabilistic sensitivity analysis, emicizumab prophylaxis had always 100% probability of being cost-effective at any threshold. Further, the use of emicizumab prophylaxis was associated to an overall budget reduction of €45.4 million in the next 3 years. In conclusion, the clinically effective emicizumab prophylaxis can be considered a cost-saving treatment for HA with inhibitor patients. Furthermore, emicizumab treatment is also associated to a significant reduction of the health care budget, making this new treatment a sustainable and convenient health care option for Italian NHS.

scholarly journals The Cost-effectiveness and Budget Impact of 2-Drug Dolutegravir-Lamivudine Regimens for the Treatment of HIV Infection in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 784-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael P. Girouard ◽  
Paul E. Sax ◽  
Robert A. Parker ◽  
Babafemi Taiwo ◽  
Kenneth A. Freedberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Budget Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Cost

PHARMACOECONOMICS OF ORAL PARICALCITOL THERAPY IN PATIENTS WITH A CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE AND SECONDARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-72
Author(s):  
A. V. Rudakova
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Kidney Disease ◽  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Kidney Disease ◽  
Secondary Hyperparathyroidism ◽  
Impact Analysis ◽  
Budget Impact ◽  
Budget Impact Analysis ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
Ckd Stage ◽  
The Cost

Selective vitamin D receptors agonist paricalcitol can increase probability of proteinuria reduction at patients with the chronic kidney disease (CKD) and secondary hyperparathyroid-ism. THE AIM of this study was to determine the cost effectiveness of oral paricalcitol in patients with a CKD and secondary hyperparathyroidism and to carry out the budget impact analysis to understand the potential financial effect of introducing this drug in a health plan. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Assessment was carried out from a health care payer per-spective with use of the 5-year temporary horizon. Markov modeling on the basis of results of double blind trials at whom the efficacy of a paricalcitol at patients with hyperparathyroidism was estimated is carried out. The analysis is carried out taking into account tariffs of compulsory health insurances across St. Petersburg for 2018. Cost of paricalcitol corresponded to the price of registration including VAT for 2018 and 10% of a trade extra charge (5061.27 rub for 28 caps. on 1 mcg). During cost-effectiveness assessment clinical and economic outcomes were discounted at 3,5% a year. The budget impact analysis was carried out without discount-ing. RESULTS. Purpose of an oral paricalcitol to patients with CKD stage 3-4 and secondary hyperparathyroidism allows to increase time before transition to dialysis and life expectancy on average for 0,049-0,134 and for 0,033-0,144 year, respectively (when calculating without dis-counting). The cost effectiveness of an oral paricalcitol is higher at early stages of a nephropathy – 1,377 million rubles / year without dialysis gained, 1,408 million rubles / life year gained and 1,647 million rubles / QALY. At the same time paricalcitol therapy of patients with early stages of a nephropathy demands increase of cumulative expenses in 5 years by 2,24 times. CONCLUSIONS. Oral paricalcitol therapy in patients with a CKD and secondary hyperparathyroidism, according to results of modeling, allows to postpone transition of patients to dial-ysis and, taking into account the made assumptions, can be considered in patients with early stages of a nephropathy as economically acceptable intervention.

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