Introduction of the tools for economic analysis of patient management interventions in heart failure costing tool : A user-friendly spreadsheet program to estimate costs of providing patient-centered interventions

Patient-centered health care interventions, such as heart failure disease management programs, are under increasing pressure to demonstrate good value. Variability in costing methods and assumptions in economic evaluations of such interventions limit the comparability of cost estimates across studies. Valid cost estimation is critical to conducting economic evaluations and for program budgeting and reimbursement negotiations.