Description
Always include payerCost and optionally include patientCost, productivityCost, and informalCareCost under their flags.
Health-economic costs depend on resource definitions, perspective, currency, price year, and timing. An incremental or discounted model term uses supplied assumptions without proving treatment benefit or determining an adoption decision.
Always include payerCost and optionally include patientCost, productivityCost, and informalCareCost under their flags.
When to use this tool
Use Health Care Perspective Included Cost Tag when you need one transparent health-economic cost or comparison component.
How to use the tool and how it works
- Enter payerCost, patientCost, productivityCost, informalCareCost, includePatient, includeProductivity, includeInformal. Use the units and conventions below.
- Run the tool. Correct any format, range, or cross-field input error before interpreting the output.
- Read includedCost, excludedCost. Use the output convention below.
Always include payerCost and optionally include patientCost, productivityCost, and informalCareCost under their flags. Return included and excluded sums.1
| Input field | Meaning and units | Accepted input |
|---|---|---|
| payerCost | Payer Cost | Required. Finite number. |
| patientCost | Patient Cost | Required. Finite number. |
| productivityCost | Productivity Cost | Required. Finite number. |
| informalCareCost | Informal Care Cost | Required. Finite number. |
| includePatient | Include Patient | Required. Boolean. |
| includeProductivity | Include Productivity | Required. Boolean. |
| includeInformal | Include Informal | Required. Boolean. |
| Output field | Interpretation | Returned shape |
|---|---|---|
| includedCost | Included Cost | Required. Finite number. |
| excludedCost | Excluded Cost | Required. Finite number. |
{
"input": {
"payerCost": 100,
"patientCost": 20,
"productivityCost": 40,
"informalCareCost": 10,
"includePatient": true,
"includeProductivity": false,
"includeInformal": true
},
"output": {
"includedCost": 130,
"excludedCost": 40
}
}Limitations and assumptions
- Signed cost terms must share currency and price-year basis and avoid double counting; flags define a supplied perspective rather than selecting a recommended evaluation scope.
- Inputs must satisfy both the field types and the cross-field conditions above. Invalid input causes an error; a successful false flag or documented placeholder is a different result.
- Numeric calculations use binary floating point unless exact decimal-integer arithmetic is explicitly stated. No hidden measurement tolerance or decimal rounding is added; nonfinite or out-of-contract results are rejected. Numeric signed-zero results are exported as zero.
Alternative or Complementary methods
Review the complete economic evaluation, clinical evidence, uncertainty, and relevant decision context separately.
References
Similar or alternative tools
- Cost Perspective Inclusion Token
Sum each signed cost into included or excluded according to literal includedCategories membership.
- Cost Perspective Source Gap
Sum included costs and the included verified subset, then return their signed difference as unsupportedIncludedCost.