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Budget impact analysis of increasing prescription of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors drugs to standard anti-hypertensive treatments in patients with diabetes and hypertension in a hypothetical cohort of Malaysian population

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  • Nurul-Ain Mohd-Tahir
  • Shu-Chuen Li

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Introduction: Renin-angiotensin system inhibitors (RAS) drugs have a proteinuria-reducing effect that could prevent the progression of kidney disease in diabetic patients. Our study aimed to assess the budget impact based on healthcare payer perspective of increasing uptake of RAS drugs into the current treatment mix of standard anti-hypertensive treatments to prevent progression of kidney disease in patient’s comorbid with hypertension and diabetes. Methods: A Markov model of a Malaysian hypothetical cohort aged ≥30 years (N = 14,589,900) was used to estimate the total and per-member-per-month (PMPM) costs of RAS uptake. This involved an incidence and prevalence rate of 9.0% and 10.53% of patients with diabetes and hypertension respectively. Transition probabilities of health stages and costs were adapted from published data. Results: An increasing uptake of RAS drugs would incur a projected total treatment cost ranged from MYR 4.89 billion (PMPM of MYR 27.95) at Year 1 to MYR 16.26 billion (PMPM of MYR 92.89) at Year 5. This would represent a range of incremental costs between PMPM of MYR 0.20 at Year 1 and PMPM of MYR 1.62 at Year 5. Over the same period, the care costs showed a downward trend but drug acquisition costs were increasing. Sensitivity analyses showed the model was minimally affected by the changes in the input parameters. Conclusion: Mild impact to the overall healthcare budget has been reported with an increased utilization of RAS. The long-term positive health consequences of RAS treatment would reduce the cost of care in preventing deterioration of kidney function, thus offsetting the rising costs of purchasing RAS drugs. Optimizing and increasing use of RAS drugs would be considered an affordable and rational strategy to reduce the overall healthcare costs in Malaysia.

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  • Nurul-Ain Mohd-Tahir & Shu-Chuen Li, 2019. "Budget impact analysis of increasing prescription of renin-angiotensin system inhibitors drugs to standard anti-hypertensive treatments in patients with diabetes and hypertension in a hypothetical coh," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-13, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0212832
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0212832
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    1. Cornelis Boersma & Jarir Atthobari & Ron Gansevoort & Lolkje Jong-Van den Berg & Paul Jong & Dick Zeeuw & Lieven Annemans & Maarten Postma, 2006. "Pharmacoeconomics of Angiotensin II Antagonists in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Nephropathy," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 24(6), pages 523-535, June.
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