From: The cost of unresectable stage III or stage IV melanoma in Italy
Resource use item | Unit | Cost (€ 2009) | Notes | Source |
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Hospitalization | cost per day | 740 | Cost for one day stay in hospital, overall average. Original data referred to 2004, inflated to 2009 via consumer price index | [13] |
Hospice stay | cost per day | 211 | Daily current tariff, mean of Lombardy and Piedmont values | [14] |
Emergency room visit | cost per visit | 252 | Original cost data referred to 2007, inflated to 2009 via consumer price index | [15] |
Outpatient (specialist visit) | cost per visit | 22 | Specialist visit, current tariff (code: 89.7) | [16] |
Adverse events (AE) | cost per day | see Note | AEs classified into categories based on ATC coding (level 2) of the drugs used for their treatment. Daily drug cost based on most frequently prescribed medications (e.g. ondansetron, filgrastim, lenograstim, pegfilgrastim, etc.) | [17] |
Radiotherapy | cost per regimen in combination with systemic therapy | 2814 | DRG 409 (radiotherapy in day hospital) current tariff times average radiotherapies/patient number (7.5) | |
Transfusion | cost per procedure | 179 | Current tariff for one unit (ml 280 +/− 20%) of red blood cells added to transfusion procedure tariff (code: 99.07.1) | |
SURGERY | ||||
Resection of primary tumor | cost per procedure | 2785 | DRG 266 tariff | |
Lymph node resection | cost per procedure | 1359 | DRG 270 tariff | [18] |
All other visceral | cost per procedure | 7322 | Average of DRG tariffs (192: liver and pancreas; 149: abdomen; 303: kidney) | [18] |
Brain metastases | cost per procedure | 13493 | DRG 001 tariff | [18] |
Isolated limb perfusion | cost per procedure | 2411 | DRG 273 tariff | [18] |
Biopsy | cost per procedure | 14 | Procedure tariff (code: 86.11) | [16] |
Distant skin | cost per procedure | 2072 | Average of DRG 266 and 270 tariffs | [18] |
Lung | cost per procedure | 8335 | DRG 75 tariff | [18] |