Budget Impact Scenario Explorer
Build reconciled reference and adoption scenarios and see annual and cumulative budget impact.
Interpretation safeguard: Positive budget impact means projected expenditure increases; negative budget impact means projected savings. Neither result establishes clinical value, cost-effectiveness, equity, feasibility or an adoption decision.
1. Population and planning horizon
2. Reference and adoption scenarios
Enter the share of eligible treated patients allocated to current care and the new technology. Shares should reconcile to 100% in each scenario.
Reference scenario
Adoption scenario — final-year shares
3. Resource and treatment costs
“Other resource cost” can represent administration, monitoring, adverse-event management or other included costs. Use a broader workbook when multiple resource categories need separate audit trails.
4. Results and integrity checks
Select Calculate to reconcile the model.
| Year | Eligible | Ref new | Adopt new | Reference spend | Adoption spend | Budget impact | Cumulative |
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How to use the result
- Define the budget holder, covered population, eligibility rules and planning horizon before interpreting expenditure.
- Keep the reference scenario distinct from the adoption scenario; both represent expected futures, not simply “old” versus “new” prices.
- Reconcile uptake, treatment shares and displacement so patients are not created or double counted.
- Account for partial-year treatment, discontinuation and capacity where they materially affect treated patient counts.
- Report annual and cumulative budget impact and test uncertainty in population, uptake, treatment mix, resource use and prices.
- Do not infer cost-effectiveness or affordability solely from the sign or size of budget impact.