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A principled approach to non-discrimination in cost-effectiveness
Darius N Lakdawalla1, Jason N Doctor2
1Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. dlakdawa@usc.edu.
Summary
New methods for assessing prescription drug value, like EVL and HYT, are flawed and inconsistent. Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) offers a microeconomically sound alternative for non-discriminatory drug pricing.
Area of Science:
- Health economics
- Pharmacoeconomics
- Health policy analysis
Background:
- The US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) restricts discriminatory value assessment methods for Medicare drug price negotiations.
- This necessitates alternative approaches to evaluate prescription drug value fairly, particularly for vulnerable populations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate proposed non-discriminatory value assessment methods: Equal Value of Life-Years Gained (EVL) and Healthy Years in Total (HYT).
- To propose an alternative method grounded in microeconomic principles for fair drug value assessment.
Main Methods:
- Analysis of microeconomic foundations for EVL and HYT.
- Identification of inconsistencies in EVL and HYT decision-making over time.
- Development of Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) as a proposed alternative.
Main Results:
- EVL and HYT lack robust microeconomic underpinnings.
- These methods exhibit inconsistencies, including issues with additivity, indirect comparisons, negative value of survival gains for certain groups, unbounded average gains, and non-convex preferences.
- GRACE offers a theoretically sound alternative.
Conclusions:
- Existing proposed methods (EVL, HYT) for non-discriminatory drug value assessment are theoretically flawed and practically inconsistent.
- Generalized Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE), based on sound microeconomic principles, is proposed as a superior alternative for fair prescription drug pricing evaluations.
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