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...Jackson's luxury casket (style 3-99 Prometheus...
Carl J. Engle-Laird ’12, a Quincy House resident planning to concentrate in English, is an Elf-wizard named Prometheus. Elf-wizards are wise creatures that “revere that natural world,” according to the D&D Player Handbook...
Taking the congestive-heart-failure example, here's how the payment scheme would work: A slightly overweight 60-year-old heart-failure patient comes in with coronary-artery disease and acid-reflux disease. According to a Prometheus algorithm, this patient should cost $20,750 a year to treat - including office visits, medications, blood-pressure monitoring and an allowance for complications. The incentive for the heart patient's doctor to spend less than $20,750 is that he gets to keep a portion of the difference (assuming that the patient was managed properly and happy with the outcome). And the best...
Doctors are quick to say that much of the 30% of excess health-care spending is on "defensive medicine" - providing extra care in an effort to avoid malpractice liability - but De Brantes counters that the Prometheus model creates budgets based on clinical-practice guidelines that, if followed properly, help protect providers against malpractice claims...
...Prometheus project is named after the Greek god of forethought, but it's also a lengthy acronym for "Provider payment reform for outcomes, margins, evidence transparency, hassle reduction, excellence, understandability and sustainability...