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Changes to NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds take effect
2 April 2026 - NICE has implemented new measures to evaluate the cost effectiveness of medicines, following a policy change that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2025
Korea eases path to breakthrough drugs with flexible ICER rules
1 December 2025 - The Government has unveiled a large-scale overhaul of the health insurance drug pricing system, proposing flexible ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2025
Changes to NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds confirmed
1 December 2025 - The Government has today announced that it will increase the thresholds NICE uses in evaluations of new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2025
Why the Government must urgently raise the NICE cost effectiveness threshold
7 October 2025 - NICE plays an important role in determining whether new medicines will be funded for NHS patients ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2025
Britain prepares NHS drug spending hike to stave off Trump tariffs
8 October 2025 - The UK Government has drawn up proposals to increase the amount the National Health Service pays ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Dec 2024
What price is society willing to pay for new drugs?
12 December 2024 - The purpose of England's NHS is to improve the health and wellbeing of the nation through provision ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2024
What is NICE’s severity modifier?
15 December 2024 - A guide to the severity modifier and how it is leading to more positive recommendations overall from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Dec 2024
Should NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds change?
13 December 2024 - We explore the on-going debate around NICE’s cost effectiveness thresholds and what the future holds. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Jul 2024
Incorporating real option value in valuing innovation: a way forward
10 July 2024 - Considerable progress has been made in defining and measuring the real option value of medical technologies. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 May 2024
KRPIA urges incoming Assembly to recognise new drugs’ value
28 May 2024 - The Korean Research based Pharma Industry Association (KRPIA) called for the 22nd National Assembly, which is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Dec 2023
Has the Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services implicitly adopted a value framework for Medicare drug price negotiations?
15 December 2023 - The US Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 created several major policy changes to the pricing of prescription ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2023
A decade of health innovation: the impact of new medicines on patient health and the implications for NICE’s size of benefit multiplier
6 October 2023 - This study aimed to estimate the incremental health benefits of pharmaceutical innovations approved between 2011 and 2021 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2023
An alternative measure of health for value assessment: the equal value life-year
10 September 2023 - The quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) is an international standard in cost-effectiveness analysis. A known concern arises from the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2023
Do France, Germany, and Italy agree on the added therapeutic value of medicines?
17 August 2023 - The Health Technology Assessment of medicines is performed separately at the country level with some differences, but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Apr 2023
Added therapeutic benefit of top selling brand name drugs in Medicare
18 April 2023 - What was the added therapeutic benefit of the 50 top selling drugs in Medicare in 2020, ...