ESTIMATING THE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF DACLATASVIR REGIMENS FOR PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED CHRONIC HEPATITIS C IN THE UK

Author(s)

McEwan P1, Webster S2, Ward T2, Kalsekar A3, Yuan Y4, Brenner M5
1Health Economics and Outcomes Research Ltd, Cardiff, UK, 2Health Economics and Outcomes Research Ltd, Monmouth, UK, 3Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ, USA, 4Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Princeton, NJ, USA, 5Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Ltd, Uxbridge, UK

OBJECTIVES: The availability of effective treatment for chronic hepatitis C patients with advanced disease is an area of unmet medical need. The objective of this study was to assess the cost-effectiveness of daclatasvir+sofosbuvir (DCV+SOF) for the treatment of hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes (GT) 1, 3 and 4 in patients with advanced disease (METAVIR score ≥ F3) compared to standard of care. METHODS: DCV+SOF was compared to telaprevir+pegylated interferon-alfa+ribavirin (TVR+PR) and no treatment (NT) in GT1, and pegylated interferon-alfa+ribavirin (PR) and NT in GT3 and GT4. A published Markov model (MONARCH) was used to simulate treatment in a cohort (mean age 50 years, 67% male) over a lifetime, using established disease transition rates, costs and health utilities. UK 2013 costs were employed, with costs and benefits discounted at 3.5%. Weekly treatment costs and sustained virologic response (SVR) rates used were: DCV: £2,038.13; SOF: £2,915.24 (DCV+SOF SVR: 100% GT1, GT3 and GT4); TVR: £1,866.50 (SVR: 62%); PR: £191.35 (SVR: 58% GT3; 45% GT4). RESULTS: In GT1, incremental costs were £15,282 and £20,798 and incremental QALYs were 1.95 and 4.88 compared to TVR+PR and NT, respectively.  In GT3, incremental costs were £96,953 and £78,478, with QALY gains of 2.50 and 5.85 for PR and NT, respectively.  In GT4, incremental costs were £26,966 and £18,636, with QALY gains of 3.07 and 5.36 for PR and NT, respectively. Predicted ICERs were: GT1, £7,830 versus TVR+PR, £4,263 versus NT; GT3, £38,815 versus PR, £13,416 versus NT; GT4, £8,782 versus PR, £3,477 versus NT. CONCLUSIONS: At conventional UK cost effectiveness thresholds, treatment with DCV+SOF is estimated to be cost-effective compared to standard of care and no treatment in GT1 and GT4 patients with advanced disease.  In GT3, DCV+SOF is predicted to be cost-effective compared to NT.

Conference/Value in Health Info

2015-05, ISPOR 2015, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Value in Health, Vol. 18, No. 3 (May 2015)

Code

PIN68

Topic

Economic Evaluation

Topic Subcategory

Cost-comparison, Effectiveness, Utility, Benefit Analysis

Disease

Infectious Disease (non-vaccine)

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