Health economics review

BACKGROUND: Fertility care represents a financial burden on patients and healthcare services alike and can represent a barrier to entry for many couples. Controlled ovarian stimulation (COH) is routinely used as part of in vitro fertilizati…

Risk adjustment formulas are essential in health insurance markets, as they mitigate risk selection incentives by aligning revenues with expected healthcare expenses based on enrollee characteristics. However, current formulas can underpred…

BACKGROUND: With the increasing demand for fertility services, it is urgent to select the most cost-effective assisted reproductive technology (ART) treatment plan and include it in medical insurance. Economic evaluation reports are an impo…

BACKGROUND: Disease-specific registries, documenting costs and probabilities from pharmacoeconomic studies along with health state utility values from quality-of-life studies could serve as a resource to guide researchers in evaluating the …

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to carry out the economic evaluation, in term of a cost-minimization analysis that considers healthcare costs and indirect costs, of robot-assisted hysterectomy (RAH) compared with conventional laparosco…