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. 2023 Aug 12;41(12):1641–1655. doi: 10.1007/s40273-023-01305-3

Table 3.

Five-year budget impact

Strategy and treatments Scenario analysis Base case
Excluding FU costs in 2022–2026 of patients who started between 2018–2021 (in CHF) Including FU costs in 2022–2026 of patients who started between 2018–2021*
(in CHF)
Budget increase % Budget increase
No nivo+ipi 110,944,118 127,129,866 Reference Reference
Swissmedic label 149,294,663 165,480,411 38,350,545 30%
Nivo+ipi targeting all patients with unresectable MPM 167,985,030 184,170,779 57,040,913 45%

Beva bevacizumab, BIA budget impact analysis, carbo carboplatin, CHF Swiss Francs, FU follow-up, ipi ipilimumab, MPM malignant pleural mesothelioma, nivo nivolumab, pem pemetrexed

*Before 2022, patients had only started on pem+carbo (50% of patients) and pem+carbo+beva (50% of patients) and continued their original treatment during the BIA time horizon