The Core Design Team

James Bentley, Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Strategic Policy Planning
American Hospital Association
Chicago, Illinois

Francois de Brantes
Chief Executive Officer
Bridges To Excellence

Douglas Emery, MS
Operations Director
PROMETHEUS Payment Inc.

Alice G. Gosfield, Esq.
Principal
Alice G. Gosfield and Associates, P.C.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Jim Knutson
Risk Manager and Human Resources Director
Aircraft Gear Corporation
Rockford, Illinois

Jeffrey Levin-Scherz, MD, MBA, FACP
Chief Medical Officer
Partners Community Health Care, Inc.
Boston, Massachusetts

Toni Mills, MA
Managing Director
Blue Cross Blue Shield Association
Chicago, Illinois

Amita Rastogi, MD, MHA
Chief Medical Officer
Bridges to Excellence
Chicago, IL

Meredith Rosenthal, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts

Craig Schneider, Ph.D.
Director of Healthcare Policy
MA Health Data Consortium
Boston, Massachusetts

Cary Sennett, MD, PhD
Senior Vice-President Strategy and Clinical Analytics
American Board of Internal Medicine
Philadelphia, PA

Michael Taylor, MHA
Principal, Managed Care Delivery Systems
Towers Perrin
Boston, Massachusetts

 

Our Partners in Design

IRP-Claimshop® – IRP (www.irp.com) is a division of Accuro Healthcare Solutions, a software solutions provider to payers and providers. IRP is responsible for the development and implementation of the ECR™ Tracker portion of the PROMETHEUS Payment® Engine, interfacing with payers in pilot sites, to allocate to providers from claims submitted their proportion of the ECR™ which they have agreed to deliver to patients. Greg Everett, VP, IRP Claimshop Operations, is an active member of the Design Team.

Bridges To Excellence – BTE is the operational partner of PROMETHEUS Payment® Inc, providing both administrative and programmatic support. In that capacity, BTE will supervise the continued development of ECRs®, supported by MassPRO, the Massachusetts Quality Improvement Organization. In addition, BTE will be managing the implementation of the PROMETHEUS Payment® Engine in collaboration with IRP-Claimshop®, and will be involved in the coordination and facilitation of overall implementation of the program at the pilot sites.

 

The ECR® working groups:

Cancer:
Francois de Brantes - Coordinator
Linda Bosserman, MD, FACP
Christopher Desch, MD
Peter D. Eisenberg, MD
Dawn Holcombe, MBA, FACMPE, ACHE
Sara J. Perkel
Lee Schwartzberg, MD, FACP

Cardiac:
Alice G. Gosfield, Esq. - Coordinator
Morton F. Arnsdorf, MD, MACC
Joseph V. Messer, MD, MACC, FAHA
Bonnie H. Weiner, MD, MSEC, MBA
Janet S. Wright, MD

Chronic and Preventive Care:
Amy Helwig, MD - Coordinator
Gail Amundson, MD
Peter Basch, MD
Jeff Levin-Scherz, MD
Leif Solberg, MD

Orthopedics:
Doug Emery, MS - Coordinator
George P. Cautilli, MD
Michael London, MD
William Smulyan, MD