Mission

PROMETHEUS Payment®, Inc. is a not for profit corporation which has been created to steward the further development and implementation of the PROMETHEUS Payment® model.

PROMETHEUS Payment® is specifically designed to: (1) improve quality (2) lower administrative burden (3) enhance transparency and (4) support a patient-centric and consumer driven environment, all while facilitating better clinical coordination throughout health care.

By creating common clinical incentives for all parties, the likelihood of significant system reform is enhanced even though in the fullness of time PROMETHEUS Payment® will not substitute for all fee for service and capitation. In the last analysis, PROMETHEUS Payment® is intended to create a payment environment where doing the right things for the patient helps providers and insurers do well for themselves.

Tenets of PROMETHEUS Payment®

Providers have the opportunity to negotiate meaningfully their payment amounts in accordance with the ECR/CPG.

No one receives a provider's payment unless the provider bargained to be paid through another party.

Mechanisms of payment and systems of reporting are transparent and public.

Providers have the option to configure themselves in whatever aggregations they choose.

The implementation of PROMETHEUS explicitly seeks to lower administrative burden wherever possible.

Providers measured for efficiency will have information about other providers in order to facilitate effective referral choices.

Providers have the opportunity to speak to scorecard issues (e.g., data, findings before they are made public.)