Potential health care cost savings associated with early treatment of multiple sclerosis using disease-modifying therapy.

Abstract:

BACKGROUND:Clinical trials have shown that treatment with disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), such as interferon, at the time of clinically isolated syndrome can delay the onset of multiple sclerosis (MS). OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to assess health care utilization and expenditures associated with treating patients early with DMTs rather than delaying until patients meet the full diagnostic criteria of MS. METHODS:A retrospective study used insurance claims data (2000-2008) of enrolled patients before documented MS (1 inpatient or 2 outpatient claims with International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification 340 coding). Treatment cohorts were early DMT (DMT claim before the first documented MS; N = 227) and delayed DMT (DMT started after documented MS; N = 3724). Comparisons during 1 year of follow-up were adjusted for confounding using multivariate methods. RESULTS:Adjusted annual per-patient expenditures (including patient out of pocket) for early versus delayed were as follows: total ($28,280 vs $29,102; P = 0.44), excluding DMT cost ($15,214 vs $17,630; P < 0.01), and MS-related ($9365 vs $13,661; P < 0.01). Hospitalizations were 10.1% versus 16.5% (adjusted odds ratio [OR] = 0.51; 95% CI, 0.32-0.81). CONCLUSIONS:Analysis indicated that early DMT treatment was associated with fewer hospitalizations than delayed treatment, and there was no statistically significant difference in annual health care expenditures. This suggests that the drug costs of early therapy were offset by savings in other medical expenditures.

journal_name

Clin Ther

journal_title

Clinical therapeutics

authors

Curkendall SM,Wang C,Johnson BH,Cao Z,Preblick R,Torres AM,Knappertz V,Gondek K

doi

10.1016/j.clinthera.2011.05.049

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2011-07-01 00:00:00

pages

914-25

issue

7

eissn

0149-2918

issn

1879-114X

pii

S0149-2918(11)00303-1

journal_volume

33

pub_type

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