HIRA deletes GDP phrase but maintains current ICER threshold
By Lee, Hye-Kyung | translator Alice Kang
21.11.02 15:35:20
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NA member Jong-Hean Baek criticizes that "t is the ministry’s ploy to avoid the industry’s request to raise the ICER threshold”
HIRA’s explains “the phrase was deleted due to lack of connection between the ICER value and GDP”
The industry has requested an explanation on why the Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service deleted the ‘reference to per GDP capita’ phrase in its ICER threshold regulations.
On the 23rd, HIRA disclosed the ‘Detailed Evaluation Criteria for drugs subject to negotiation such as new drugs, etc.,' and changed the ICER threshold criteria to ‘Does not use an explicit ICER threshold, but refers to existing deliberation results that considers disease severity, social disease burden, impact on quality of life, and innovativeness to flexibly assess its value.’
Simply put, the ‘use the gross domestic product (GDP) per capita as reference’ phrase was changed to ‘refers to existing deli
Lee, Hye-Kyung(hgrace7@dailypharm.com)
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