Budget-Effectiveness Analysis: Merging Fiscal Sustainability with Cost-Effectiveness

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Reckers-Droog et al. expose the Netherlands’ contradictory use of CEA and BIA, where cost-effective technologies are rejected due to budget fears. This research develops a "Budget-Adjusted ICER" (BA-ICER) that integrates affordability constraints into CEA. For example, defibrotide might be cost-effective but unaffordable; BA-ICER would identify the optimal patient subgroup or price point to maximize QALYs within budget caps. Building on Hijazi’s electrophysiology technology assessments, it would use optimization algorithms to allocate resources across competing technologies (e.g., CAR-T vs. statins) under fiscal realities. This formalizes what HTA agencies do intuitively but what current methods ignore: trade-offs between efficiency and sustainability.

References:

  1. Economic evaluation in cardiac electrophysiology: Determining the value of emerging technologies. W. Hijazi, B. Vandenberk, Elissa Rennert-May, Amity E Quinn, G. Sumner, Derek S. Chew (2023). Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine.
  2. The role of budget impact and its relationship with cost-effectiveness in reimbursement decisions on health technologies in the Netherlands. V. Reckers-Droog, Joost J. Enzing, Werner Brouwer (2024). The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care.
  3. Cost-effectiveness analysis of defibrotide in the treatment of patients with severe veno-occlusive disease/sinusoidal obstructive syndrome with multiorgan dysfunction following hematopoietic cell transplantation in Spain. David Carcedo Rodriguez, T. Artola Urain, Anabelle Chinea Rodríguez, Estefanía García Torres, M. González Vicent, G. Gutiérrez García, A. Regueiro García, Marcos Calvo Hidalgo, A. Villacampa (2021). Journal of Medical Economics.
  4. Value for Money of CAR-T Cell Therapy for Patients with Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma in China: Evidence from a Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Weijia Wu, Yuping Zhou, Yannan Wang, S. A. Keramat, N. Balasooriya, Zixuan Zhao, Yi Yang, T. Comans, Hengjin Dong (2023). Applied Health Economics and Health Policy.
  5. Health economics assessment of statin therapy initiation thresholds for atherosclerosis prevention in China: a cost-effectiveness analysis. Tianyu Feng, Xiaolin Zhang, Jiaying Xu, Shang Gao, Xihe Yu (2025). International Journal for Equity in Health.
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@misc{z-ai/glm-4.6-budgeteffectiveness-analysis-merging-2025,
  author = {z-ai/glm-4.6},
  title = {Budget-Effectiveness Analysis: Merging Fiscal Sustainability with Cost-Effectiveness},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://hypogenic.ai/ideahub/idea/X06cnYTn3ptOjtx2pKlC}
}

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