Real-world comparison of health care costs of venetoclax-obinutuzumab vs Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitor use among US Medicare beneficiaries with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in the frontline setting.

Autor:	Huntington SF; Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Hematology, Yale University, New Haven, CT., Manzoor BS; AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL., Jawaid D; AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL., Puckett JT; COVIA Health Solutions, Ambler, PA., Emechebe N; AbbVie Inc., North Chicago, IL., Ravelo A; Genentech Inc., South San Francisco, CA., Kamal-Bahl S; COVIA Health Solutions, Ambler, PA., Doshi JA; Division of General Internal Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	Journal of managed care & specialty pharmacy [J Manag Care Spec Pharm] 2024 Oct; Vol. 30 (10), pp. 1106-1116. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 24.
DOI:	10.18553/jmcp.2024.24049
Abstrakt:	Background: Bruton's tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKis) and the BCL-2 inhibitor venetoclax in combination with obinutuzumab (VEN-O) are both recommended as frontline therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). However, VEN-O is a 12-month fixed-duration therapy generating durable remissions whereas BTKis are continuous treat-to-progression treatments. Objective: To examine costs before and after the fixed-duration treatment period for VEN-O relative to that observed for BTKis in a national sample of older US adults with CLL in the frontline setting. Methods: This retrospective analysis used Medicare Parts A, B, and D claims from 2016 to 2021. Fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries aged 66 years or older initiating frontline CLL treatment with VEN-O or a BTKi treatment between June 1, 2019, and June 30, 2020 (index date = first prescription fill date), were included in the sample. Mean cost measures were captured for both groups over 2 fixed time periods calculated from the index date: Month 0 to 12 (proxy for VEN-O on-treatment period) and Month 13 to 18 (proxy for VEN-O off-treatment period). A difference-in-difference approach was used. Multivariate generalized linear models estimated changes in adjusted mean monthly costs during Month 0 to 12 vs Month 13 to 18, for the VEN-O group relative to the BTKi group. Results: The final sample contained 193 beneficiaries treated with VEN-O and 1,577 beneficiaries treated with BTKis. Risk-adjusted all-cause monthly total costs were similar for VEN-O patients ($13,887) and BTKi patients ($14,492) between Month 0 and 12. Moreover, during Month 13 to 18, the mean monthly all-cause total costs declined by 67% for VEN-O ($13,887 to $4,462) but only by 10% for BTKi ($14,492 to $13,051). Hence, the relative reduction in costs across the 2 periods was significantly larger for VEN-O (-$9,425) vs BTKi (-$1,441) patients (ie, difference in difference = -$7,984; P < 0.001). Similar patterns were observed for CLL-related costs, with the substantially larger reductions in CLL-related total monthly costs (-$9,880 VEN-O vs -$1,753 BTKi; P < 0.001) for the VEN-O group primarily driven by the larger reduction in CLL-related monthly prescription costs (-$9,437 VEN-O vs -$2,020 BTKi; P < 0.001). Conclusions: This real-world study of older adults with CLL found a large reduction in monthly Medicare costs in the 6 months after completion of the fixed-duration treatment period of VEN-O, largely driven by the reduction in CLL-related prescription drug costs. A similar decline in costs was not observed among those treated with BTKis. Our study highlights the substantial economic benefits of fixed-duration VEN-O relative to treat-to-progression therapies like BTKis in the first-line CLL setting.
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