Economics & Value

Articles about real-world healthcare utilization and costs on Value-Based Cancer Care.
The American Cancer Society has recommended annual magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as an adjunct to mammography for breast cancer screening in women who have a lifetime risk of breast cancer of approximately 25% to ?50%, as determined by models such as the Gail risk test. A new simulated clinical trial evaluated the cost-effectiveness of using 7 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (7SNPs) in combination with the Gail test to assess the cost-benefit of annual MRI screening in women at risk for breast cancer (Folse HJ, et al. Cancer Prev Res [Phila]. 2013;6:1328-1336).
Read Article

New Orleans, LA—Peripheral T-cell lymphoma (PTCL) is associated with high resource utilization rates and high overall costs, according to a multicenter study presented at ASH 2013.
Read Article

>New Orleans, LA—New research has confirmed that 30-day readmission for reduced-toxicity conditioning allogeneic hematopoietic-cell transplantation (allo-HCT) is linked to greater 100-day posttransplant hospital charges.
Read Article

>New Orleans, LA—More patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) are receiving rituximab infusions in the hospital setting, incurring greater costs than those receiving infusions in the office or clinic, an examination of medical and pharmacy claims has shown.
Read Article

New Orleans, LA—Recipients of allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant are at high risk for financial burden, according to survey-based data collected by Nandita Khera, MD, MPH, a medical oncologist from the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, and colleagues.
Read Article

New Orleans, LA—The use of decitabine (Dacogen) is more cost-effective than conventional induction therapy for patients aged >60 years with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), according to data from a recent economic analysis.
Read Article

>Patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and high out-of-pocket (OOP) costs for treating their disease have a 70% chance of discontinuing treatment and a 42% chance of nonadherence to treatment compared with patients with lesser copays. These conclusions, which were recently published online (Dusetzina SB, et al. J Clin Oncol.
Read Article

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has proposed a radical new model for the reimbursement of oncology services under Medicare, with the new paradigm consisting of incentives for oncologists to emphasize quality rather than quantity of care as the greater good to the bottom line.
Read Article

With the development of targeted therapies, there has been a clear evolution in the pathway to the approval of drugs by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and a rapid approval of a drug after phase 1 clinical trials, which show definitive proof of activity and safety, and “breakthrough” designation, are now possible.
Read Article

Atlanta, GA—The adoption of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for the management of patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has had a mixed impact on clinical and economic outcomes, according to findings from a large retrospective cohort study.
Read Article

Page 12 of 18