A US payer budget impact analysis of Flurpiridaz-PET-MPI compared to SPECT-MPI in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease
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Abstract
Aims: This economic model was developed to assess the budget impact of a novel radiotracer, Flurpiridaz (F 18 -PET-MPI), compared to SPECT-MPI from a US payer perspective.Materials and Methods: The model was developed comparing F 18 -PET-MPI and SPECT-MPI, with F 18 -PET-MPI modality share increasing from 0.5% to 2.5% of the total MPI modality share, over a 5-year time horizon.The model estimates the impact of diagnostic performance on downstream healthcare resource utilization (HCRU) including invasive coronary angiography (ICA), revascularization, pharmacological treatment, and cardiac outcomes (CO) such as cardiac mortality (CM) and myocardial infarction (MI).Four suspected CAD populations, including general and difficult-to-image subgroups, were analyzed.Clinical inputs used to support the parameterization of the model were sourced from a systematic literature search and included claims-based real-world evidence, observational, and multicenter registry studies to inform the rates of HCRU and CO, and head-to-head comparative clinical trial data advised diagnostic performance inputs.Reimbursement codes informed MPI modality costs.Results are reported as per-member per-month (PMPM) based on a hypothetical health plan.Results: In all suspected CAD populations analyzed, there was a nominal cost increase in the world with F 18 -PET-MPI.The 5-year average PMPM incremental budget impact ranged from $0.02 to $0.05 across all suspected CAD subgroups.Cost-savings were associated with decreased downstream CO such as CM, MI, and ICA. Limitations and Conclusion:The available literature to source all parameters in the model was limited; therefore, assumptions and additional calculations were made based on published evidence to inform the model.A one-way sensitivity analysis was performed to confirm and address uncertainty in key parameters.This comprehensive analysis illustrates that the superior diagnostic performance of F 18 -PET-MPI may result in reduced adverse CO events and associated costs, increased appropriate identification and treatment of CAD, and a minimal increase in overall costs among general and difficult-to-image patient subgroups. PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARYMyocardial perfusion imaging is a technique used to diagnose Coronary Artery Disease.Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are key Myocardial perfusion imaging functional heart assessments.This study compares the costs of Flurpiridaz-PET (a new PET radiotracer) to SPECT.Flurpiridaz-PET improves diagnostic accuracy, leading to better treatment and reduced cardiac outcomes, including fewer heart attacks and mortality.The overall cost difference between Flurpiridaz-PET and SPECT is minimal.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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