Abstract:The Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER), a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization, is the predominant independent price assessor in the United States. ICER’s cost effectiveness assessments are increasingly being used to support health insurance coverage and healthcare policy decisions. ICER often does not apply rigorous data quality and inclusion criteria to either the assumptions embedded within their cost-effectiveness models or the data inputted into the models. Poor quality assumptions and d… Show more
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