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. 2020 Aug;26(8):10.18553/jmcp.2020.19319. doi: 10.18553/jmcp.2020.19319

TABLE 3.

Total Costs over 2 Years Without Rebate

Treatment Sequence Excluding Tofacitinib Tofacitinib Comparator Sequence 1 Tofacitinib Comparator Sequence 2 Tofacitinib Comparator Sequence 3
Treatment sequence ADA→ETA→APR→SEC TOF→ADA→ETA→APR ADA→TOF→ETA→APR APR→TOF→ADA→SEC
Total costs, $ 36,449,210 31,225,220 34,419,371 27,994,352
Total costs PMPM, $ 1.52 1.30 1.43 1.17
Total ACR20 responders 252 261 261 253
Total costs per ACR20 responder, $ 144,376 119,706 132,040 110,683
Total ACR50 responders 169 171 174 141
Total costs per ACR50 responder, $ 215,900 182,806 198,351 198,462
Total ACR70 responders 81 81 94 72
Total costs per ACR70 responder, $ 449,473 383,946 368,076 388,119
Cost type, $
  Drug acquisition 35,777,297 30,516,914 33,762,831 27,215,006
  Administration 407,956 377,332 393,876 393,781
  Monitoring 173,495 291,723 214,204 323,808
  ADR 90,463 39,251 48,460 61,757

ACR20/50/70 = American College of Rheumatology response criteria of 20/50/70%; ADA = adalimumab; ADR = adverse drug reaction; APR = apremilast; ETA = etanercept; PMPM = per member per month; SEC = secukinumab; TOF = tofacitinib.