Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Capitated Patient Navigation Program for Medicare Beneficiaries with Lung Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the cost-effectiveness of implementing a patient navigation (PN) program with capitated payment for Medicare beneficiaries diagnosed with lung cancer.

Data sources/study setting

Cost-effectiveness analysis.

Study design

A Markov model to capture the disease progression of lung cancer and characterize clinical benefits of PN services as timeliness of treatment and care coordination. Taking a payer's perspective, we estimated the lifetime costs, life years (LYs), and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and addressed uncertainties in one-way and probabilistic sensitivity analyses.

Data collection/extraction methods

Model inputs were extracted from the literature, supplemented with data from a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services demonstra

SUBMITTER: Shih YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4799903 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature