TABLE 1.
Overall value | Patients | Caregivers | Payers | Rest of society | |||
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Medicare | Medicaid & other public insurance | Private insurance | |||||
Valuation of QALY gains (patients) | $621 | $621 | |||||
Severity adjustment of patient QALY gain | $113 | $113 | |||||
Valuation of QALY gains (caregivers) | $16 | $16 | |||||
Attributable medical cost (patient) | –$25 | –$5 | –$13 | –$3 | –$4 | ||
Attributable medical cost (caregiver) | –$19 | –$2 | –$4 | –$5 | –$8 | ||
Attributable social care cost (community) | –$3 | –$1 | –$1 | –$1 | –$0.2 | ||
Attributable social care cost (nursing home) | $199 | $52 | $24 | $123 | |||
Patient labor earnings | $36 | $36 | |||||
Avoided cost of public assistance programs | $0.1 | $0.1 | |||||
Valuation of avoided caregiver time loss | $33 | $33 | |||||
Financial insurance value to patient | $15 | $15 | |||||
Overall | $986 | $830 (84%) | $47 (5%) | $6 (1%) | $114 (12%) | –$12 (–1%) | $0.1 (0.01%) |
Abbreviation: QALY, quality‐adjusted life‐years.