Economic impacts of care by high-volume providers for noncurative esophagogastric cancer: A population-based analysis.

Authors

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Julie Hallet

Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada

Julie Hallet , Nicole Look Hong , Victoria Zuk , Laura Davis , Vaibhav Gupta , Craig Earle , Nicole Mittmann , Natalie Coburn

Organizations

Odette Cancer Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Toronto, ON, Canada, Cancer Care Ontario/Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON, Canada, Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

Research Funding

Other Government Agency
CIHR

Background: Esophagogastric cancer (EGC) is one of the deadliest and costliest malignancies to treat. Care by high-volume providers can provide better outcomes for patients with EGC. Cost implications of volume-based cancer care are unclear. We examined the cost-effectiveness of care by high-volume medical oncology providers for non-curative management of EGC. Methods: We conducted a population-based cohort study of non-curative EGC over 2005-2017 by linking administrative healthcare datasets. High-volume was defined as >11 patients/provider/year. Healthcare costs ($USD/patient/month-survived) were computed from diagnosis to death or end of follow-up from the perspective of the healthcare system using validated costing algorithms. Multivariable quantile regression examined the association between care by high-volume providers and costs. Sensitivity analyses were conducted by varying costing horizons and high-volume definitions. Results: Among 7,011 non-curative EGC patients, median overall survival was superior with care by high-volume providers with 7.0 (IQR: 3.3-13.3) compared to 5.9 (IQR: 2.6-12.1) months (p < 0.001) for low-volume providers. Median costs/patient/month-lived were lower for high-volume providers ($5,518 vs. $5,911; p < 0.001), owing to lower inpatient acute care costs, despite higher medication-associated and radiotherapy costs. Care by high-volume providers was independently associated with a reduction of $599 per patient/month-lived (95% confidence interval: -966 to -331) compared to low-volume providers. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was -393. Care by high-volume providers remained the dominant strategy when varying the high-volume definition and the costing time horizon. Conclusions: Care by high-volume providers for non-curative EGC is associated with superior survival and lower healthcare costs, indicating a dominant strategy that may provide an opportunity to improve cost-effectiveness of care delivery.

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2020 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Poster Session A: Esophageal and Gastric Cancer and Other GI Cancers

Track

Esophageal and Gastric Cancer,Other GI Cancer

Sub Track

Quality of Care/Quality Improvement

Citation

J Clin Oncol 38, 2020 (suppl 4; abstr 339)

Abstract #

339

Poster Bd #

C14

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