The Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the National Institute for Health Value and Technology (hereinafter NIHO), published a pilot list of unit costs related to the provision of healthcare in Slovakia.
The initiative under the umbrella of the State Secretary of the Slovak Republic Prof. Robert Babeľa should provide the first important tool for better preparation and more adequate evaluation of pharmaco-economic analyses of health technologies also for their inclusion in the classification of medicinal products, medical devices and dietetic foods.
–One of the key problems in preparing, evaluating and assessing economic and HTA analyses is the non-existent list of unit costs, reflecting the average cost of health care performances, of which the State Secretary of State Prof. Baby. With this pilot project, we want to bring more transparency to the evaluation environment, which will ensure that analyses are assessed on the basis of the same financial inputs. That's what's been missing so far. Baby.
The list of performance-specific costs will be gradually improved in terms of external feedback and the basic objective is to finalise it during 2022. MZ SR together with NI recommend to all applicants for inclusion in the categorization to use and quote the costs available on this line accordingly https://health.gov.sk/?Database-unit-costs.
The list will be guided by 2022 in checking the accuracy of analyses, at least in terms of the adequacy of the selected unit costs.