PROMETHEUS Payment Pilot Lessons is Real
From its creation by a pro bono inter-disciplinary group of health care experts, many have looked at the PROMETHEUS Payment® model as some theoretical construct of payment. This would be wrong. Pilot implementations under a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant have offered practical lessons in using the program on the ground. New pilot programs in Colorado, New York and elsewhere are providing new lessons. In “Transitioning to Value: PROMETHEUS Payment Pilot Lessons”, some of the pilot sites discuss what they experienced in implementing the program in diverse settings. PROMETHEUS Payment now has toolkits to help those in the field apply what has been learned. It can be used in any setting with a willing health plan and willing providers, but the PROMETHEUS analytics can also be used without full deployment of the payment model, to find Potentially Avoidable Complications in any claims database, which can give hospitals and physicians actionable information on which to improve care and value. This is real.