Cross-cutting practice area
Unit costs, programme and intervention costing, costed national strategies and cost databases — the cost evidence that insurance design, economic evaluation and budgeting all depend on.
Unit costs are the most frequently borrowed and least frequently checked inputs in health financing and economic evaluation. Published estimates are often out of date, drawn from a different facility level or country, or reported without the resource-use assumptions needed to reuse them. Without credible local costs, benefit packages, tariffs, investment cases and cost-effectiveness results are all difficult to defend.
Facility- and service-level unit costs by level of care, using bottom-up, top-down or mixed methods.
Full and incremental costs of programmes and interventions, including start-up and recurrent costs.
Costed national and sector strategic plans, action plans and service packages, with resource-needs projections.
Documented, reusable cost datasets and costing tools that your team can update as prices change.
Agree the perspective, services, cost components, facility levels, costing year and currency, and how the results will be used.
Select bottom-up, top-down or mixed methods according to the decision, data availability and budget.
Gather resource use and prices from facility records, budgets, procurement data and expert input, with checks at each step.
Calculate costs with uncertainty ranges, allocate shared costs transparently and document every assumption so results can be updated.
Every engagement follows our reproducible pipeline with three expert sign-off gates.
Start here: our free, sourced resources on costing — methods guides, blank Excel templates and calculators.
Typically 6–12 weeks, depending on whether primary data collection is needed.
Bottom-up costing shows what drives costs and suits detailed questions; top-down costing is quicker and captures overheads. Most practical studies combine both, and we recommend a method once we understand the decision and the data.
Yes. We deliver a documented dataset and a costing tool so your team can update prices and volumes.
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