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September 17, 2012 | Program Result
The Health Care Incentives Improvement Institute furthered the development and pilot testing of its Prometheus bundled payment model. Researchers at RAND and the Harvard School of Public Health evaluated the initiative at three pilot sites.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bundled payment, which provides payment for all of the care a patient needs over the course of a defined clinical episode, instead of paying for each discrete service. We evaluated the initial "road test" of PROMETHEUS Payment, one of several bundled payment pilot projects.
July 1, 2010 | Issue Brief
Updates from the PROMETHEUS Payment Initiative and pilot sites.
September 4, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief explains Evidence-informed Case Rates (ECRs), the core element of the PROMETHEUS Payment model.
June 10, 2009 | Issue Brief
This brief explains the three essential elements of PROMETHEUS Payment and how it offers a realistic, rational and sustainable blueprint for a new health care payment system.
May 1, 2009 | Report
In analyzing national claims data, the PROMETHEUS Payment developers found that a significant percentage of total cost of care spent today on six chronic diseases is attributable to "Potentially Avoidable Complications."
February 28, 2011 | Toolkit
Toolkit is designed to provide the information needed to gain a solid understanding of the PROMETHEUS Payment model, consider the potential benefits of a pilot implementation and take action.
January 1, 2009 | Report
This report describes the PROMETHEUS scorecard approach, the principles of scoring, the sources of the measures, how scores are calculated and the impact on payment.
June 1, 2008 | Report
This project aims to design and test an approach to paying for health care which would simultaneously improve quality, lower administrative burden and pay providers fairly based on known science. This paper reviews the approach to be implemented and describes the real-world decisions necessary to make a pilot possible.
September 10, 2009 | Journal Article
The PROMETHEUS Payment approach seeks to promote and reward high-quality, efficient, patient-centered health care by using a novel method to pay hospitals and physicians and other providers. The PROMETHEUS Payment model consists of three components: evidence-informed base payments with patient-specific severity adjustments and an allowance for potentially avoidable complications.