Value, Affordability, and Decision Making
Efficient decisions about allocating health care budgets require assessment of the effects of health care interventions and the value for money they provide. Decision-making processes leading to funding decisions should be structured and evidence-based.
Is Rate Of Return Pricing A Useful Approach When Value-Based Pricing Is Not Appropriate?
22 March 2019
Value-based pricing (VBP) is an efficient method for pricing new drugs. Rate of return pricing could, however, be useful in two cases: treatments for ultra-rare diseases,…
Exploring Variations in the Opportunity Cost Cost-effectiveness Threshold by Clinical Area: Results from a Feasibility Study in England
20 March 2019
Estimating a cost-effectiveness threshold reflecting the opportunity cost of adopting a new technology in a health system is not easy. A new OHE report provides empirical…
HTA in Japan: Failing to Meet International Good Practice?
15 March 2019
The Japanese government has recently announced new plans to implement HTA from April 2019. The ISPOR HTA Task Force published ‘Good Practices in HTA’ in January…
Abolishing Pharmaceutical Rebates in the US? Looking at the Trade-Offs
12 March 2019
The combination of rising drug costs in the US and increasing financial stress for individual patients has triggered intense national concern. One target has come under…
The World Needs Better Drugs for TB. The Center for Global Development and OHE Have a Proposal and We Need your Feedback
5 March 2019
Innovation is a critical tool in the global fight against tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease that primarily affects the poor and vulnerable and ranks among the…
Pricing and Paying for Cures: Early Experience with HTA of Gene Therapy in the USA
28 February 2019
In this OHE Seminar Briefing, Dr Steven Pearson, President of ICER, sets out ICER’s early experiences of using HTA to assess gene therapy in the US,…
End of Life Treatments, Societal Values, and ‘Overall’ Preference
12 February 2019
OHE’s Koonal Shah gave a presentation on societal values and the provision of end of life treatments at a Manchester Centre for Health Economics seminar.
OHE Response to Public Consultation on NICE Principles
7 February 2019
OHE has submitted a response to the public consultation on updating the principles that guide the development of NICE guidance and standards.
OHE Lecturing for Professional Training at ICPS
5 February 2019
Bernarda Zamora delivered a pro bono lecture to professionals from diverse countries enrolled at the Professional Certificate in Strategic Planning organised by the International Centre of…