PDG5 Changes in Canadian Guidelines for Conducting Budget IMPACT Analysis

[Guidelines for budget impact analysis of health technologies in Brazil].

Budget impact analysis (BIA) provides operational financial forecasts to implement new technologies in healthcare systems. There were no previous specific recommendations to conduct such analyses in Brazil. This paper reviews BIA methods for health technologies and proposes BIA guidelines for the public and private Brazilian healthcare system. The following recommendations were made: adopt the ...

Proposal of Polish guidelines for conducting financial analysis and their comparison to existing guidance on budget impact in other countries.

BACKGROUND Financial analysis (budget impact analysis, BIA) is increasingly required by decision-makers to ascertain the macroeconomic consequences of new product reimbursement in addition to proof of cost-effectiveness. Poland is in the process of drafting country-specific guidelines for BIA, positioned as complementary to economic evaluation in decision-making OBJECTIVES The aim of this art...

a standard model of conducting pharmaceutical budget impact analyses for drug reimbursement in iran

Health plan budget impact analysis for pimecrolimus.

OBJECTIVE Budget impact models are useful tools for managed care organizations to make drug formulary decisions. The objective of this study was to estimate the incremental budgetary change in per-member-per-month (PMPM) medical and pharmacy costs for atopic dermatitis (AD) or eczema after the introduction of pimecrolimus cream 1%, a topical calcineurin inhibitor. METHODS Estimates of the per...

Canadian credentialing guidelines for esophagogastroduodenoscopy.

1Division of Gastroenterology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; 2Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia; 3Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA; 4St Joseph’s Health Centre, Toronto, Ontario; 5Division of Gastroenterology, McMaster University, Hamilton, O...