Cost-effectiveness of percutaneous mitral repair for patients with severe secondary mitral regurgitation: an updated evaluation using a modelling approach based on COAPT final data after 5-year follow-up.

Objectives: To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of percutaneous repair (PR) for secondary mitral regurgitation.

Design: An economic evaluation using a time-varying Markov model comprising three states to assess the cost and effectiveness of PR added to guideline-directed medical treatment (GDMT) compared with GDMT alone. Clinical outcomes considered within the model were overall survival and heart failure (HF) hospitalisations (HFH), and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) was calculated. Cost data were derived from a literature search. Sensitivity analyses were undertaken.

Setting: The French healthcare system perspective assuming a lifetime horizon.

Participants: Published data at 5 years obtained from patients enrolled in the Cardiovascular Outcomes Assessment of the MitraClip Percutaneous Therapy for Heart Failure Patients with Functional Mitral Regurgitation study.

Results: In our base case, we chose cubic spline models to extrapolate overall survival, and we used log-logistic models to estimate cumulative HFH. After discounting, the model generated life-years of 3.843 years and 3.055 years for PR+GDMT and GDMT, respectively. Discounted total quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) values were 2.572 and 1.945 for PR+GDMT and GDMT, respectively (incremental 0.627 QALY). Discounted total costs were €42 709 and €20 732 for the intervention and the control groups, respectively (incremental €21,977), resulting in an ICER of €35,068/QALY. At a threshold of €50 000 per QALY, PR had a 0.85 probability of being cost-effective.

Conclusion: Updated trial data have enabled investigators to provide a more reliable estimation of the ICER, which suggests that PR has good value for money compared with GDMT alone.