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To advance value-based care, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) has suggested that HHS reduce its number of alternative payment models (APMs) now that it has lessons learned from a wide range of previous demonstrations.
“Operating a smaller portfolio of more harmonized models, with more consistent parameters and clearer and more aligned incentives, should more successfully encourage providers to furnish care efficiently across the continuum of care, which could, in turn, decrease Medicare spending,” the advisory group said in its June 2021 Report to Congress.
“Beneficiaries could also benefit from a streamlined, more harmonized suite of models if this approach causes providers to better manage their care and results in improved quality and health outcomes,” the report continued.