Hepatitis C treatment in patients on dialysis awaiting renal transplantation: a budget impact analysis

This is an analyses of the budget impact derived from the cost-effectiveness study on the hepatitis C treatment in candidates for renal transplantation under dialysis. It aims to estimate the budget impact of an offer of hepatitis C treatment for all candidates for renal transplantation. A Markov model was developed to estimate the mean cost for treatment of distinct proportions of the target population. The prevalence and incidence of hepatitis C in the candidates for renal transplantation in the dialysis population was also estimated in a horizon of ten years. Based on these estimative, we calculate the amount needed for treatment of this population in three distinct scenarios characterized by a proportion of the population under treatment. The values were compared with the expense of the system to guarantee renal replacement therapies in one year, identifying the cost of treatment of all candidates for transplant, infected with HCV, corresponding to 0.3% of the amount spent with renal transplantation within the SUS.

Hepatitis C; renal transplantation; budget impact analysis