Value Insider Season 1 Episode 3: How Does Budget Impact and Affordability in Healthcare Work? (BI and Affordability) [Podcast]

Sean D Sullivan; Elisabeth Sophia Hartgers-Gubbels; Michael Chambers

doi:10.2147/IJGM.S390689

Value Insider Season 1 Episode 3: How Does Budget Impact and Affordability in Healthcare Work? (BI and Affordability) [Podcast]

Int J Gen Med. 2022 Oct 26:15:7879-7884. doi: 10.2147/IJGM.S390689. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Sean D Sullivan¹, Elisabeth Sophia Hartgers-Gubbels², Michael Chambers³

Affiliations

¹ School of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
² Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany.
³ MC Healthcare Evaluation, London, UK.

Abstract

How does budget impact and affordability in healthcare work? In this episode of the Value Insider podcast, host Mike Chambers speaks with Prof. Sean Sullivan about affordability and budget impact for the "payers" of healthcare interventions. Prof. Sullivan is Dean of the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. He is past president of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) and served as chair of the health technology assessment (HTA) committee of US Health Insurer Premera Blue Cross, was part of the US Governmental Medicare coverage evidence committee and led the ISPOR Task Force on Methods for Conducting and Reporting Budget Impact Assessments. Prof. Sullivan explains how budget impact and affordability are intertwined and how this plays a role in decisions in the US, but also the rest of the world.

Keywords: HTA; health economics and outcomes research; health technology assessment; healthcare reimbursement; market access; payer; value demonstration.