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In a comment letter to the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), the Partnership to Improve Patient Care (PIPC) offered feedback on ICER's draft evidence report for severe asthma treatments.
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The letter criticizes ICER's model for being unrepresentative of results real-world settings, as well as its consistent use of the discriminatory quality-adjusted-life-years (QALY) metric. PIPC encourages ICER to review the technical components of its model to ensure accurate results, as well as avoid the use of QALY-based cost effectiveness when evaluating treatments.
"Asthma impacts about 25 million Americans, and it is a condition that disproportionately impacts Black and Hispanic patients," wrote PIPC Chair Tony Coelho. "With this in mind, it is important that ICER handle this assessment in a way that does not exacerbate health inequities that are already very prevalent in the asthma community."
"Asthma impacts about 25 million Americans, and it is a condition that disproportionately impacts Black and Hispanic patients," wrote PIPC Chair Tony Coelho. "With this in mind, it is important that ICER handle this assessment in a way that does not exacerbate health inequities that are already very prevalent in the asthma community."
| icer_asthma_comments_final.pdf |
