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ArticleJournal of market access & health policy2021

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of a Prescription Digital Therapeutic for the Treatment of Opioid Use Disorder.

Fulton F Velez, Daniel C Malone

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Article in Journal of market access & health policy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Economic Impact of an Employer-Sponsored Integrated Digital Intervention Targeting Substance Use Disorders: Return on Investment Analysis.Telemedicine journal and e-health : the official journal of the American Telemedicine Association · 2025
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  6. Download to heal: navigating the pixelated path of digital therapeutics in psychiatric care.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2025
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  10. Adoption of Digital Therapeutics in Europe.Therapeutics and clinical risk management · 2024
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  11. Cost-effectiveness of digital therapeutics for essential hypertension.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2022
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  13. Health educationFrontiers in public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Fulton F VelezPear Therapeutics, Inc, Boston, MA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9054-5933
Daniel C MaloneStrategic Therapeutics, LLC, Oro Valley, AZ.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5006-9394

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lack of adequate treatment for many patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) has led to high medical costs ($90B in 2020). An analysis of the cost-effectiveness (cost-utility) of reSET-O, the first and only FDA-approved prescription digital therapeutic (PDT) for the treatment of OUD, is needed to inform value assessments and healthcare decision making. To evaluate the cost-utility of reSET-O in conjunction with treatment-as usual (TAU) compared to TAU alone. A third-party payer-perspective decision analytic model evaluated the cost-effectiveness of reSET-O + TAU relative to TAU (i.e., oral buprenorphine, face-to-face counseling, and contingency management [immediate rewards for negative drug tests logged]) alone over 12 weeks. Clinical effectiveness data (retention in therapy and health state utilities) were obtained from the peer-reviewed literature, while resource utilization and cost data were obtained from a published claims data analyses. Over 12 weeks, the addition of reSET-O to TAU resulted in a gain of 0.003 quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), and $1,014 lower costs, resulting in economic dominance vs. TAU. reSET-O + TAU's was economically dominant (less costly, more effective) vs. TAU alone over 12 weeks, a result that was driven by a reduction in medical costs after initiation of reSET-O observed in a recent real-world claims analysis.

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Cost-effectivenesscost-utility analysisopioid use disorderprescription digital therapeuticsreal-world evidenceretention in therapy

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PMID34434535
PMCPMC8381930

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