New type of price measurement for medical services: Interest of a cost sensitivity index for a research agenda on pharmaceutical models

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Huttin, Christine C.^{a; b; *}

Affiliations: [a] ENDEPUSresearch, Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA | [b] University Paul Cezanne III (Aix Marseille University), Aix-en-Provence, France

Correspondence: [*] Address for correspondence: Professor Christine Huttin, 1770 Massachusetts Avenue, Box 591, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA. E-mail: Chris.huttin@comcast.net.

Abstract: This paper aims to propose a new methodological agenda for new price measurement for medical services; it is based on a cost sensitivity index coming from series of pilot studies on physicians, in order to provide adjustment methods to household surveys for health care expenditure budgets. The use of stated-revealed preference models with inclusion of stated preference studies is proposed with an example on a physician cost sensitivity study in Europe; it could also help the ISPOR task for force best practices in conjoint study designs.

Keywords: Conjoint analysis, stated revealed preference model, pharmaceutical pricing

DOI: 10.3233/THC-2012-0694

Journal: Technology and Health Care, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 463-476, 2012