The Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service released the results of the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) of drugs submitted for pharmacoeconomic evaluation from 2019 to 2023, which has shown a decrease in the maximum ICER threshold set for anticancer drugs.

The ICER threshold did not appear to have changed much from the previous year, as the review results of the breast cancer drug Enhertu, which was reimbursed in April and was known to have significantly exceeded the ICER threshold, were not reflected in the results.

On December 30, HIRA released the ICER threshold values of 19 drugs evaluated from 2019 to 2023. At the end of every year, HIRA discloses the past 5-year ICE