Value-Based Pricing
Value-Based Pricing (VBP) aligns the price of a treatment with the value it provides to patients, healthcare systems, and society. Across multiple indications, a single price may not accurately reflect a medicine’s value, Indication-Based Pricing (IBP) allows different prices to be set for different indications.

Augmenting Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Uncertainty: The Implications for Value Assessment—Rationale and Empirical Support
14 April 2020
Research by OHE and the University of Washington into how uncertainty-related novel elements of value could be included in an Augmented Cost-Effectiveness Analysis has been published…

Financing and Scaling Innovation for the COVID Fight: A Closer Look at Demand-Side Incentives for a Vaccine
1 April 2020
A COVID-19 vaccine is needed now, but timelines (12-18 months) create large market risk. By the time a vaccine is ready, the crisis may have passed.…

Price Transparency: Good or Bad? What Does Literature and Theory Tell Us?
17 March 2020
Adrian Towse presented evidence that transparency of process reduced corruption and improved competition. Evidence was, however, against price transparency for on-patent medicines. It will reduce access…

Are Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds Fit for Purpose for Real-World Decision Making on Access to and Pricing of Pharmaceuticals? A New OHE Paper on Current Methods and Practices, and a Novel Approach for Optimal Thresholds
3 March 2020
OHE has published a white paper discussing the relative merits and shortfalls of current approaches to defining, estimating, and applying cost-effectiveness thresholds in HTA. This will…

A Final MVAC Blueprint—and the Start of an R&D Revolution?
6 February 2020
TB kills 1.6m people annually – the world’s deadliest infectious disease. The Market-Driven, Value-Based Advance Commitment (MVAC), creates and guarantees a market for better TB treatment.…
Incentives for R&D: Payment Options and Pricing Challenges
8 January 2020
The issue of rising prescription drug prices is a concern in every country. Dozens of policy initiatives and hundreds of research projects over last the fifty…

Indication-Based Pricing (IBP) Consultation Report
1 April 2020
Although the science underlying drug development has evolved, there has been little change in how we pay for them. As more and more medicines come to…

Making Outcome-based Payment a Reality in the NHS: Moving to the Next Phase
3 October 2019
OHE, in collaboration with RAND Europe, University College London (UCL) and University of Manchester (UoM), has been awarded a new research grant from Cancer Research UK…

A Market-based International Reference Price Index: Solution or Contradiction?
13 September 2019
The Trump Administration proposed an International Pricing Index for reimbursing physician-administered Medicare drugs. A conservative thought leader proposed a different basket of ‘market-oriented’ countries. These differ…