Following up on their June 2021 report calling for fewer Medicare alternative payment models (APM), the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) offered strategies in their recent 2022 report to streamline Medicare APMs. They recommended that CMS move away from testing a large number of model tracks and instead operate on a small number permanently, so that efforts could shift to a larger scale. Most importantly, they suggested that APMs could be centered around a single population-based model.
