Reports and Published Papers

Click here to view a list of reports on PROMETHEUS from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation website, or click on the links below.

• What is PROMETHEUS Payment?

• Making Prometheus Payment Rates Real

• What are PROMETHEUS Payment Evidence-Informed Case Rates?  

• PROMETHEUS Payment Set to Test New Method of Paying Providers for High-Quality Health Care

• Igniting Health Care Payment Reform

• Building a Bridge from Fragmentation to Accountability - The PROMETHEUS Payment Model

• All Roads Lead To Payment: Squeezing Value from Health Reform

• PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 1
• PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 2
• PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 3
• PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 4
• PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 5
• PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 6
• PROMETHEUS Payment Reform Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 7 

White Papers

The following are reports and studies on PROMETHEUS:

• Rastogi A, Mohr BA, Williams JO, Soobader MJ, de Brantes F. Prometheus Payment Model: Application to Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery. Clin Orthop Relat Res 2009; 467(10): 2587-2597.

• de Brantes F, D'Andrea G, Rosenthal MB. Should health care come with a warranty? Health Aff (Millwood) 2009; 28:w678-w687

  • Technical Appendix 1: The warranty allowance model

• 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)

• Francois de Brantes, M.S., M.B.A., Meredith B. Rosenthal, Ph.D., and Michael Painter, J.D., M.D. Building a Bridge from Fragmentation to Accountability - The Prometheus Payment Model. NEJM 2009; 361:1033 (Perspective)

• Gosfield, A., Brush, J. Accountable "Care Organization" or "Accountable Care" Organization. (2009)

• de Brantes F and Rastogi A. Evidence-Informed Case Rates: Paying for Safer, More Reliable Care. The Commonwealth Fund 40, publ. 2008; 1146:1-14.

• Gosfield, "Making PROMETHEUS Payment Rates Real: Ya'Gotta' Start Somewhere " (June 2008) 15pp

• de Brantes F, Camillus J. Evidence-informed case rates: a new health care payment model [Internet]. New York (NY): Commonwealth Fund; 2007 Apr [cited 2007 May 20]. Available from: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=478278.