Aligning opportunity cost and net benefit criteria
The health shadow price
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22084735 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Simon Eckermann (0000-0002-1629-394X, University of Wollongong, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Pages | 1212439-1212439 |
| Publication date | 2024-03-06 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2296-2565 • E-ISSN: 2296-2565 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fpubh.2024.1212439 |
| PMID | 38510345 |
| OpenAlex | W4392515945 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 28 |
Given constrained healthcare budgets and many competing demands, public health decision-making requires comparing the expected cost and health outcomes of alternative strategies and associated adoption and financing actions. Opportunity cost (comparing outcomes from the best alternative use of budgets or actions in decision making) and more recently net benefit criteria (relative valuing of effects at a threshold value less costs) have been key concepts and metrics applied toward making such decisions. In an ideal world, opportunity cost and net benefit criteria should be mutually supportive and consistent. However, that requires a threshold value to align net benefit with opportunity cost assessment. This perspective piece shows that using the health shadow price as the ICER threshold aligns net benefit and opportunity cost criteria for joint adoption and financing actions that arise when reimbursing any new strategy or technology under a constrained budget. For an investment strategy with ICER at the health shadow price Bc = 1/(1/ n + 1/ d -1/ m ), net benefit of reimbursing (adopting and financing) that strategy given an incremental cost-effectiveness ration (ICER) of actual displacement, d , in financing, is shown to be equivalent to that of the best alternative actions, the most cost-effective expansion of existing programs (ICER = n ) funded by the contraction of the least cost-effective programs (ICER = m ). Net benefit is correspondingly positive or negative if it is below or above this threshold. Implications are discussed for creating pathways to optimal public health decision-making with appropriate incentives for efficient displacement as well as for adoption actions and related research
Actuarial science · Business · Cost effectiveness · Cost–benefit analysis · Economic evaluation · Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Health technology · Incentive · Microeconomics · Net present value · Opportunity cost · Present value · Public economics · Shadow price · Computer Science · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Healthcare cost, quality, practices · Finance
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