No Patient Left Behind pushing alternative cost-effectiveness method

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Organization’s latest paper is a user guide to assess drug value

By Richard Guy, Biopharma Analyst

November 25, 2024 4:41 PM UTC

In an attempt to encourage wider implementation of its cost-effectiveness analysis methodology, No Patient Left Behind has published a guide that explains how to use it.

The paper, published Nov. 8 in Forum for Health Economics & Policy, asserts that drug value should be assessed using a method called the Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA) framework, which incorporates value elements such as disease severity, price declines due to the loss of market exclusivity, and the social value that accrues as a drug is used to treat successive cohorts of patients, all of which are overlooked by traditional methods. …