Economic Evaluation of a Home-Based Age-Related Macular Degeneration Monitoring System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medicare recently approved coverage of home telemonitoring for early detection of incident choroidal neovascularization (CNV) among patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), but no economic evaluation has yet assessed its cost-effectiveness and budgetary impact.

Objectives

To evaluate a home-based daily visual-field monitoring system using simulation methods and to apply the findings of the Home Monitoring of the Eye study to the US population at high risk for wet-form AMD.

Design, setting, and participants

In this economic analysis, an evaluation of the potential cost, cost-effectiveness, and government budgetary impact of adoption of a home-based daily visual-field monitoring system among eligible Medicare patients was performed. Effectiveness

SUBMITTER: Wittenborn JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5470421 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature