Assessing the potential cost-effectiveness of the addition of atezolizumab to first-line platinum chemotherapy in advanced urothelial cancer: Implications for value-based pricing.

Authors

Ali Khaki

Ali Raza Khaki

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Ali Raza Khaki , Leonidas Nikolaos Diamantopoulos , Marita Zimmerman , Louis P. Garrison , Petros Grivas

Organizations

University of Washington, Seattle, WA, Institute for Disease Modeling, Bellevue, WA, VeriTech Corporation, Mercer Island, WA

Research Funding

U.S. National Institutes of Health
U.S. National Institutes of Health

Background: Data from interim analysis of IMvigor130 trial showed that 1st line treatment of advanced urothelial cancer (aUC) with atezolizumab (Atezo) + platinum-based chemotherapy (PBC) significantly improved progression-free survival (PFS), but not overall survival (OS), vs PBC. Switch maintenance anti-PD(L)1 after completion of PBC as 1st line therapy is an alternate strategy, recently reported to significantly prolong OS. We aimed to compare cost-effectiveness of combined treatment (Atezo+PBC) vs PBC based on IMvigor130. Methods: We used a partitioned-survival model to evaluate the potential cost-effectiveness of treatment with A) Atezo+PBC (gemcitabine with cisplatin or carboplatin) or B) PBC alone with checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab at progression (standard-of-care). PFS and OS curves were extracted from IMvigor 130 and parametric models were fit to approximate outcomes with Atezo+PBC with the hazard ratio (HR) from the trial used to project outcomes for PBC alone. We used a health-care payer perspective with a two-year time horizon. Model outputs — costs, life-years, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) — were used to calculate an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER). A scenario analysis evaluated the “value-based price” needed for Atezo+PBC to be cost-effective; a one-way sensitivity analysis was also performed. Results: Results of the cost-effectiveness analysis are summarized in the table. The mean projected incremental cost of Atezo+PBC compared to PBC was $59,604 for a mean incremental gain of 0.09 life-years and 0.07 QALYs. This resulted in an ICER of $629,755/life-year and $895,800/QALY, respectively. A 33% reduction would be needed in the price of atezolizumab to make Atezo+PBC cost-effective at an ICER of $150,000/QALY. Results were sensitive to cost of pembrolizumab at progression, the cost of Atezo+PBC, and the OS HR between Atezo+PBC and PBC. Conclusions: Combined chemoimmunotherapy with atezolizumab and PBC would likely not be cost-effective for the first-line treatment of aUC. However, with a price rebate of 33%, it would approach being cost-effective at a widely used cost-effectiveness threshold.

PBCAtezo + PBCIncremental Results
Costs per person$92,135$151,738$59,604
Life-Years per person1.271.370.09
QALYs per person1.011.070.07
ICERLife-Years$629,755
QALYs$895,800

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2020 ASCO Virtual Scientific Program

Session Type

Poster Session

Session Title

Genitourinary Cancer—Kidney and Bladder

Track

Genitourinary Cancer—Kidney and Bladder

Sub Track

Bladder Cancer

Citation

J Clin Oncol 38: 2020 (suppl; abstr 5031)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2020.38.15_suppl.5031

Abstract #

5031

Poster Bd #

100

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