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Valuing Health Charles E. Phelps (University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Rochester)

Valuing Health By Charles E. Phelps (University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Rochester)

Summary

Valuing Health uses the generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE) model to demonstrate the economic value of improving the quality of life for individuals with disability or severe illness.

Valuing Health Summary

Valuing Health: The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model by Charles E. Phelps (University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Rochester)

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) plays an important role in health policy debates, helping to shape resource allocation and pricing decisions. Yet many economists also recognize that the current framework can offer misleading and incomplete results. Current CEA methods imply that health improvements are equally valuable to those in good health and poor health, which fails to recognize the increased value of health improvements for those with severe illness or disability. Valuing Health introduces the generalized risk-adjusted cost-effectiveness (GRACE) model as a more accurate method for determining the value of medical treatments and technologies. The GRACE model generalizes the underlying CEA assumption of constant gains in health care, demonstrating through diminishing returns the greater economic value of improving the quality of life for individuals with disability or severe illness. Valuing Health also provides sensitivity analyses to show how value measurements change alongside key parameters, including the potential effects of various combinations of risk preferences on the aggregate value of treating a defined population with any set of available treatments. It concludes with a discussion of the ethical differences between the CEA and GRACE methods and outlines steps for implementing the GRACE model to replace standard CEA as the proper method for valuing medical interventions. Valuing Health offers a revelatory reconceptualization of current valuation models in health economics with clear guidance for inclusive pricing and regulation that reflects the true value of modern health care.

About Charles E. Phelps (University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Rochester)

Charles E. Phelps, PhD, is University Professor and Provost Emeritus at the University of Rochester. He has previously served as Director of RAND's Program on Regulatory Policies and Institutions and helped found the RAND Health Insurance Study. He is the author of more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in health economics and policy and the foundational textbook, Health Economics. He has been a member of the National Academy of Medicine since 1991 and he received the Victor R. Fuchs Award for Lifetime Contributions to the Field of Health Economics from the American Society of Health Economists in 2019. He currently serves as a consultant to the Innovation and Value Initiative and the Office of Health Economics in the United Kingdom. Darius Lakdawalla, PhD, is Quintiles Professor of Pharmaceutical Development and Regulatory Innovation, Professor of Pharmaceutical Economics and Public Policy, and Director of Research at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California. Dr. Lakdawalla is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and an associate editor for The Journal of Health Economics. He previously served as Associate Editor at the Review of Economics and Statistics and the American Journal of Health Economics. The author of over one hundred peer-reviewed articles across economics, medicine, and health policy, Dr. Lakdawalla has been awarded the Garfield Prize, the Milken Institute Award for Distinguished Economic Research, and the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Excellence in Research Methodology Award.

Table of Contents

Definitions Preface Chapter 1: Why We Need Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, How It Is Done, and Why It Needs Fixing Chapter 2: Diminishing Returns...Everywhere Chapter 3: How Uncertain Treatment Outcomes Affect Value Chapter 4: The Total Value of Medical Interventions and the Tradeoff between Qol and Le Chapter 5: The Consequences of Permanent Disability Chapter 6: Multi Period Models Chapter 7: In Search of Decision Thresholds Chapter 8: Measuring the Risk Parameters Chapter 9: Putting Together the Parts Chapter 10: Transition Issues Chapter 11: Consequences for Health Plans Chapter 12: Welfare and Equity Implications of Grace Chapter 13: Conclusions and Next Steps References

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NGR9780197686294
9780197686294
019768629X
Valuing Health: The Generalized and Risk-Adjusted Cost-Effectiveness (GRACE) Model by Charles E. Phelps (University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University Professor and Provost Emeritus, University of Rochester)
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2024-03-22
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