VA Costs: HERC versus MCA
2018
Ths video is intended to provide a review the HERC Average Cost and the Managerial Cost Accounting data system and the different data sets useful for providing cost and utilization data for research studies.
This video is part of the Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with VA Data (HCEA) free course offered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development group focused on cost-effectiveness analysis and budget impact analyses. There were a total of 12 videos produced between January and April 2018.
Other videos in this series include:
- New Recommendations for the Conduct of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis from the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health and Medicine
- An Overview of Decision Analysis
- Estimating the Cost of an Intervention
- Introduction to Effectiveness, Patient Preferences, and Utilities
- Estimating Transition Probabilities for a Model
- Medical Decision Making and Decision Analysis
- Evidence Synthesis to Derive Model Transition Probabilities (Part I - Systematic Literature Review)
- Evidence Synthesis to Derive Model Transition Probabilities (Part II – Quantitative Pooling)
- Sensitivity Analyses
- Budget Impact Analysis
- How Can Cost Effectiveness Analysis be Made More Relevant to U.S. Health Care?
Source:
Yoon J. VA Costs: HERC versus MCA. Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analysis with VA Data (HCEA). U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development 2018. https://www.hsrd.research.va.gov/for_researchers/cyber_seminars/archives/video_archive.cfm?SessionID=2399