Publications

The PROMETHEUS Payment® model is a work in progress. The publications on this page describe many facets of the program's design. We refine our thinking as we work through the practicalities of using the model in the real world. The two most significant changes to date are the list of conditions which are being modeled into the ECR Starter set, and the application of Potentially Avoidable Complication (PAC) Pools to construct the payment rates. In the early years of PROMETHEUS Payment® implementation, these PAC Pools will fund the withholds instead of the Performance Contingency Funds, which we will use when the PAC Pools dwindle.

The ECR Starter set conditions include chronic conditions: (1) diabetes; (2) congestive heart failure; (3) COPD; (4) asthma; (5) coronary artery disease; and (6) hypertension. Acute conditions, include (1)AMI; (2) hip and knee replacements; (3) CABG; (4) coronary revascularization heart cath; (5) bariatric surgery and (6) hernias.

We suggest you read "Making PROMETHEUS Payment® Rates Real" for an explanation of these changes. The rest of the program remains as described in the other publications.


de Brantes, D'Andrea, Rosenthal, "Should Health Care Come With A Warranty?", Health Affairs, June 2009. Also see the article posted in The New York Times, June 25, 2009 : Can Health Care Come With a Warranty?
   
Rastogi, Mohr, Williams, Soobader, de Brantes, "Prometheus Payment Model: Application to Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery" June 23, 2009
   

de Brantes, Gosfield, Emery, Rastogi, D’Andrea, "Sustaining the Medical Home: How PROMETHEUS Payment® Can Revitalize Primary Care" (May 2009)

Paper Without Technical Appendices
Appendix A - Discussion of Risk Bifurcation in Health Care
Appendix B - Chronic Care ECRs
Appendix C - Chronic Care ECR Estimator
   
Gosfield and deBrantes, “PROMETHEUS Payment®: What’s The Score? (March, 2009)
 
Gosfield, “The Quality-Payment Connection: Is There Really Anything New?Managing Health Today (Dec. 2008)
 
Gosfield, “Getting The Team Paid: How Medicare Physician Payment Policies Impede Quality, HEALTH LAW HANDBOOK, (2009 Ed). A complete copy of the Health Law Handbook is available from West at 1-800-382-9252 or online at www.thomson.com.
 
de Brantes and Rastogi, “Evidence-Informed Case Rates: Paying for Safer, More Reliable Care”, Commonwealth Fund, June 16, 2008.
 
Gosfield, “Making PROMETHEUS Payment® Rates Real: Ya’Gotta’ Start Somewhere” (June 2008) 15pp
 
Gosfield, “A New Payment Model For Quality: Why Care Now?”, American Journal of Medical Quality (2007 Ed.), pp 145-147).
 
de Brantes and Camillus, "Evidence Informed Case Rates: A New Health Care Payment Model", The Commonwealth Fund, April 2007
 
Gosfield, "The PROMETHEUS Payment Program: A Legal Blueprint", HEALTH LAW HANDBOOK, 2007 Ed., WestGroup. (in press) A complete copy of the Health Law Handbook is available from West at 1-800-382-9252 or online at www.thomson.com.
 
Gosfield, "PROMETHEUS Payment: Better Quality and A Better Business Case", JNCCN (Nov. 2006) pp. 968-970
 
Gosfield, "PROMETHEUS Payment®: Better for Patients, Better for Physicians." Journal of Medical Practice Management (September/October 2006) Pages 100-104
 
Gosfield, "In Common Cause for Quality Part 2: PROMETHEUS Payment® and Principles of Engagement", Hospitals and Health Networks Online, October 17, 2006
 
Gosfield and Reinertsen, "In Common Cause for Quality Part 1: New Hospital-Physician Collaborations," Hospitals and Health Networks Online, October 10, 2006
 

Gosfield, "PROMETHEUS: New Payment System, New Keys to Success", New Perspectives, Journal of the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors, Oct/Nov 2006

 
Gosfield, "Getting Beyond P4P: PROMETHEUS Payment® and Group Practice", Group Practice Journal (October 2006)