Type: Oral
Session: 900. Health Services and Quality Improvement: Hemoglobinopathies: Empowering Choices: Navigating Shared Decision-Making for Patient-Centric Care
Hematology Disease Topics & Pathways:
Research, Sickle Cell Disease, Adult, Clinical Research, Health outcomes research, Hemoglobinopathies, Diseases, Study Population, Human
Methods: In this independent analysis free of industry influence, we built a 4-arm Markov model of adult patients with SCD to determine the cost-effectiveness of 1) NMAC/RIC-HID allo-HCST vs 2) gene therapy vs 3) standard-of-care (SOC). To further assess NMAC-HID allo-HSCT against a traditional, historical reference, 4) a MAC-MD allo-HCST arm was also tested. Our model assumed the best-reported performance for each transplant strategy, 100% effectiveness for gene therapy using exa-cel ($2.1 million), and real-world health resource utilization for SOC; conducting the analysis over a lifetime time-horizon from the US health system perspective. Allo-HSCT-specific mortality and cGVHD transition probabilities were derived from a recent international NMAC-HID trial (NCT01850108) and, for MAC-MD recipients, from 154 SCD HLA-matched donor recipients reported across the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation, Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research, and Eurocord. The SOC arm employed disease-severity-specific transition probabilities and costs using data from US commercially insured patients with SCD, consisting of utilization of hydroxyurea, opioid therapy, antibiotics, vaccinations, and blood transfusions across 2007-2017 (Optum). SCD severity was informed by the annual number of vaso-occlusive crises requiring hospitalization. For all arms, age-, sex- and disease-specific background mortality was used. Effectiveness was measured using quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and was either derived from EORTC QLQ C-30 and EQ-5D data or was informed from published health state utility values. The primary outcome was the incremental net monetary benefit (iNMB) at a willingness-to-pay threshold of $100,000/QALY; the decision rule in a cost-effectiveness analysis is to choose the strategy with the highest iNMB. We further conducted a probabilistic sensitivity analysis to capture uncertainty in all parameters simultaneously over 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations.
Results: In the base-case, NMAC/RIC-HID allo-HSCT, gene therapy, and SOC accrued 22.6, 24.3, and 14.3 discounted lifetime QALYs at discounted costs of $1.0, $2.5, and $1.0 million, respectively. When assessed against historical MAC-MD allo-HSCT, NMAC-HID allo-HSCT accumulated 0.9 additional QALYs and saved $240,000. In probabilistic sensitivity analysis, NMAC/RIC-HID allo-HSCT was the cost-effective strategy in 100% of 10,000 iterations, with an incremental net monetary benefit of $810,000 [95% credible interval $500,000-1.1 million] vs SOC and $1.3 million [$840,000-$1.5 million] vs gene therapy.
Conclusion: With advancements in NMAC/RIC-HID allo-HSCT outcomes in adults with SCD, allotransplantation offers a cost-effective therapeutic option for lifelong disease amelioration for people living with SCD. The population health benefits of NMAC/RIC-HID allo HSCT versus myeloablative matched donor allo-HSCT are particularly important in the context of an increased donor eligibility pool with the former.
Disclosures: No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.
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