Will ICER’s ‘shared savings’ approach decrease value-based prices most for the most severe diseases?

Healthcare Economist October 17, 2024
Jason Shafrin

That is the title of a paper recently accepted for publication by Value in Health with co-authors Shanshan Wang, Khounish Sharma, Kathryn Spurrier, Robert J. Nordyke. The abstract is below.

Objectives

To identify the types of disease most likely to be impacted by the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review’s (ICER) shared savings assumptions.

Methods

For diseases with treatments that were FDA-approved between 2019 and 2023, annual direct and indirect economic burden and characteristics of each disease were extracted from peer-reviewed literature. ICER’s shared savings methodology was applied two ways: 50/50 shared savings and $150,000 cost-offset cap. The primary outcome was the difference in eligible cost savings provided by a hypothetical disease cure under ICER’s 2 shared savings methods. Characteristics...

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