CEVR analyzes the value of strategies to improve health and health care.

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Brian Reid to join Tufts-CEVR as Senior Fellow

BOSTON, October 7, 2024 — The Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health (CEVR) at Tufts Medical Center is pleased to announce that Brian R...

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Symposium: Celebrating Cost Effectiveness Analysis

Symposium: Celebrating Cost Effectiveness Analysis We are pleased to announce a special symposium on Saturday, October 26 on “Celebrating Cost-Effecti...

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SPEC Participation at AMCP Nexus 2024

SPEC Participation at AMCP Nexus 2024 Join CEVR’s SPEC team in at the 2024 AMCP Nexus meeting in Las Vegas as we present our research on biosimilar co...

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Recent Publications

STAT
Medicare’s new transitional coverage of emerging technologies program doesn’t go far enough
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August 28, 2024
Value in Health
The health benefits, costs, and cost-effectiveness of ultraorphan drugs
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July 31, 2024
Health Affairs Forefront
Improving how CMS defines “unmet medical need” under the IRA
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July 30, 2024
Clinical Therapeutics
Balancing evidence and need: variation in US commercial payer coverage of Esketamine
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July 21, 2024
Health Affairs Scholar
Biosimilar underutilization alone does not foretell a broken biologics market
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July 17, 2024
Value in Health
A roadmap for improving Medicare's application of coverage with evidence development
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May 23, 2024
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Racial and ethnic differences in disease course Medicare expenditures for beneficiaries with dementia
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March 20, 2024
Value in Health
It's time to reconsider the three percent discount rate
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March 8, 2024
Health Affairs Forefront
Are We Valuing Prescription Drugs Appropriately?
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February 5, 2024
Journal of Alzheimer's Disease
Life-Sustaining Treatments Among Medicare Beneficiaries with and without Dementia at the End of Life
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November 21, 2023
Health Policy Open
Variation in Medicaid and commercial coverage of cell and gene therapies
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December 15, 2023
Health Affairs Forefront
The Case For Including Dynamic Drug Pricing In Cost-Effectiveness Analyses Under The IRA
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October 18, 2023
Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Assessing the impact of grief on quality of life, work productivity, and health outcomes for parents bereaved from SMA: A study protocol
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August 23, 2023
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The CEVR Team

Our team of experienced, dedicated researchers is led by health economists Peter Neumann and Josh Cohen. Together we produce cutting-edge health care cost-effectiveness research.

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Our Databases

Our comprehensive databases provide the information individuals and organizations need to analyze the benefits, risks, and costs of strategies to improve health and health care.

CEA Registry

The CEA Registry is a comprehensive database of 9,080 cost-utility analyses on a wide variety of diseases and treatments.

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Global Health CEA Registry

The GH CEA Registry is the first comprehensive database to compile articles utilizing the “cost-per-DALY averted” metric to measure the efficacy of health interventions.

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SPEC Database

The Specialty Drug Evidence and Coverage (SPEC) Database is a new data resource developed with the goal of providing an empirical basis to commercial payer specialty drug coverage.

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