Results of Methodological Quality Assessment of Budget Impact Analysis: Main Mistakes
The article provides the results of the assessment of methodological quality of budget impact analysis (BIA) submitted as a justification for the inclusion/exclusion of drugs into the drugs lists for medical use (Vital and Essential Drug list, List of Drugs for Certain Categories of Citizens, List of High-Cost Drugs) in 2018.The assessment was performed by the Center of Healthcare Quality Assessment and Control of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation according to the requirements, described in the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation, № 871 (version from 29.10.2018), which consist of 11 criteria. The information on distribution of BIA studies in regards to the number of criteria not meeting the requirements and proportion of mistakes on every criterion is presented. Besides, the authors analyzed main causes of non-meeting the requirements for methodological quality of BIA studies described in the Order of the Government of the Russian Federation, № 871.