Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds
A Bargaining Approach: A Theory on ICER Pricing and Optimal Level of Cost-Effectiveness Threshold
1 July 2020
This paper presents a supply and demand model of pharmaceutical markets to analyse the relationship between the value of the Cost-Effectiveness Threshold (CET) and the distribution…
Exploring Variations in the Opportunity Cost Cost-effectiveness Threshold by Clinical Area: Results from a Feasibility Study in England
1 March 2019
Estimating a cost-effectiveness threshold reflecting the opportunity cost of adopting a new technology in a health system is not easy. This OHE research paper provides empirical…
Searching for Cost-effectiveness Thresholds in NHS Scotland
1 December 2013
This research examines the use of QALY thresholds in NHS Scotland in 2012-13 for health services that were “at the margin”, i.e. those for which investment or…
Critique of CHE Research Paper 81: Methods for the Estimation of the NICE Cost Effectiveness Threshold
12 January 2013
This paper counters the recently-published recommendation by Claxton et al[1] that NICE should lower its cost-per-QALY threshold from the current £20,000–£30,000 official range to £12,936. The…
Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds: Economic and ethical issues
1 November 2002
The papers in this book are based on the proceedings of a workshop jointly organised by the OHE and the King’s Fund and hosted by the…