Improving the monitoring of chronic heart failure in Argentina: is the implantable pulmonary artery pressure with CardioMEMS Heart Failure System cost-effective?

Table 2 Base case results

Strategy	Per patient cumulative costs (ARS)		Incremental costs (ARS)		Per patient cumulative QALY	Incremental QALY	Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ARS per QALY)
Strategy	Social security	Private sector	Social security	Private sector	Per patient cumulative QALY	Incremental QALY	Social security	Private sector
Base case results with 5% discount rate
Usual medical management	1,440,033	2,080,035			1.98
CardioMEMS HF System	2,521,736	2,999,087	1,081,703	919,051	2.35	0.37	2,937,756	2,496,015
Base case results without discount rate
Usual medical management	1,672,268	2,415,684			2.29
CardioMEMS HF System	2,726,678	3,293,612	1,054,410	877,928	2.72	0.43	2,449,631	2,039,625

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