Health Economics Archives

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Separate or hybrid economic models?

Added on 09/04/2025

The value of a proven pricing structure

Added on 30/01/2024

How to prove the concerned price if the specialty is not yet produced? What is the value of a proven pricing structure if the price is downsized over time? Lets discuss to overcome this bottleneck.

Model hygiëne

Added on 27/10/2023

You dive into a simulation model and at first everything seems flawless. But with each adjustment the risk of flaws creeping into the programming.

Willingness to Pay (WTP) versus Medical Need

Added on 28/07/2023

The 'ICER' is a well-known measure to assess the extra cost to invest to win one QALY. In Belgium, unofficially 35 000 € / QALY gained is often applied as benchmark, the 'willingness to pay' (WTP). But does the payer invest the budget in function of the potential medical need or not ?

How to deal with uncertainties?

Added on 13/02/2023

A model contains a large amount of inputs and every single input will be surrounded with uncertainty and the end result will be a translation of the composite effect of all inputs and their potential variance.

The value of ‘Net Monetary Benefit’

Added on 27/10/2022

How to indicate if an innovation is worthwhile to pay for in view of the claimed benefit it will bring? The goal of the NMB is to compare two interventions by subtracting the NMB of ‘intervention A’ from the NMB of ‘intervention B’, resulting in the incremental NMB (iNMB).

How to compare 2 data sets?

Added on 19/08/2022

Do you understand the potential impact of using 2 independent datasets? In this blog, we provide you a taste of some basic insights.

Health state transition models

Added on 01/07/2022

Always wondered how health economic models work? Good news: this blog is developed to guide you through the basic elements of ‘health state transition models’.

Inflation vs discounting

Added on 12/05/2022

All market access colleagues involved in the preparation of economic files will be confronted with the aspect of inflation. There are 2 viewpoints versus ‘today’.

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