The Committee meets publicly on approximately a quarterly basis. As required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), notifications, agendas, and materials relating to the meeting are provided to the public in a timely manner. Please see individual meetings below.
PTAC’s 2025 public meetings will be held either in the Great Hall of the Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201 or virtually.
Upcoming 2025 Meetings
March 3-4, 2025
Beginning at 9:00 AM EST
Past 2024 Meetings
September 16-17, 2024
PTAC’s September 2024 meeting focused on:
- Stakeholder perspectives on developing a pathway toward having all Medicare beneficiaries with Parts A and B in care relationships with accountability for quality, outcomes, and TCOC;
- Envisioning future PB-TCOC models, the needs of different kinds of participating PB-TCOC organizations, and necessary components for success;
- Organizational structure, payment, and financial incentives for supporting accountable care relationships;
- Developing a balanced portfolio of performance measures for PB-TCOC models; and
- Addressing challenges regarding data, attribution, benchmarking, and risk adjustment.
September 16, 2024
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Meeting Overview Slides: Preliminary Comments Development Team Findings
- Panel Discussion: Perspectives on Developing a Pathway Toward the 2030 Goal of Having All Beneficiaries in Care Relationships with Accountability for Quality, Outcomes, and TCOC
- CMS Panel Discussion
- Roundtable Panel Discussion: Stakeholder Perspectives on a Pathway Toward Developing PB-TCOC Models
- Background Materials
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
September 17, 2024
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Listening Session 1: Organizational Structure, Payment, and Financial Incentives for Supporting Accountable Care Relationships
- Listening Session 2: Developing a Balanced Portfolio of Performance Measures for PB-TCOC Models
- Listening Session 3: Addressing Challenges Regarding Data, Benchmarking, and Risk Adjustment
- Request For Input (RFI) – For Public Comment
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
June 10-11, 2024
PTAC’s public meeting focused on addressing the needs of patients with complex chronic conditions or serious illnesses in population-based total cost of care (PB-TCOC) models. Topics regarding this patient population included issues that have been raised in several previously submitted physician-focused payment model proposals, such as:
- Care delivery needs of patients who account for the top 5% of Medicare spending;
- Strategies for improving patient-centered care, care delivery, & health outcomes;
- Optimizing the use of post-acute care, palliative care, & end-of life care;
- Approaches for measuring performance and quality of care; and
- Incentivizing improved outcomes and delivery system transformation.
June 10, 2024
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Meeting Overview Slides: Preliminary Comments Development Team Findings
- Panel Discussion: Providing Patient-Centered Care for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions or Serious Illnesses in Population-Based Total Cost of Care (PB-TCOC) Models
- Roundtable Panel Discussion: Provider Perspectives on Improving Outcomes for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions or Serious Illnesses in PB-TCOC Models
- Listening Session 1: Best Practices for Measuring Quality and Outcomes Related to Caring for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions or Serious Illnesses in PB-TCOC Models
- Background Materials:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
June 11, 2024
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Listening Session 2: Optimizing the Mix of Palliative Care and End-Of Life Care in PB-TCOC Models
- Listening Session 3: Best Practices for Incentivizing Improved Outcomes for Patients with Complex Chronic Conditions or Serious Illnesses in PB-TCOC Models
- CMS Panel Discussion: Chronic Conditions
- Request For Input (RFI) – For Public Comment
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
March 25-26, 2024
PTAC’s March public meeting focused on developing and implementing performance measures for PB-TCOC models and issues that have been raised in several previously submitted physician-focused payment model proposals. Topics included:
- Defining performance measurement objectives;
- Selecting and balancing between the number and types of performance measures;
- Best practices for linking performance measures with payment and financial incentives;
- Addressing challenges related to implementing performance measures; and
- Incorporating health equity and the patient experience into performance measures.
March 25, 2024
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panel Discussion Guide
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Presentations:
- Environmental Scan: Developing & Implementing Performance Measures for PB-TCOC Models
- Current Performance Measures Overview Report
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
March 26, 2024
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT
PTAC's 2023 series of theme-based discussions focused on key issues related to operationalizing Population-Based Total Cost of Care (PB-TCOC) models. PTAC’s September 2023 public meeting focused on encouraging rural participation in PB-TCOC models. Topics included challenges facing patients and providers in rural communities, approaches for incorporating rural providers in PB-TCOC model design, provider perspectives on payment issues related to rural providers in PB-TCOC models, incentives for increasing rural providers’ participation in PB-TCOC models, and successful interventions and models for encouraging value-based transformation in rural areas. This meeting also addressed important issues that have been raised in several physician-focused payment model (PFPM) proposals that have previously been submitted to PTAC.
This all built on the Committee’s ongoing series of theme-based discussions related to developing and implementing PB-TCOC models – including recent discussions on improving care delivery, specialty integration and care transition management.
September 18, 2023
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panel Discussion Guides
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Environmental Scan: Encouraging Rural Participation in PB-TCOC Models
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
September 19, 2023
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
Building on the Committee’s 2022 series of theme-based discussions on Population-Based Total Cost of Care (PB-TCOC) models and the March 2023 discussion on improving care delivery and specialty integration in population-based models, PTAC’s June 2023 meeting focused on improving care transition management within PB-TCOC models. Topics included: innovative approaches for improving management of care transitions across settings of care, designing financial incentives for improving care transition management, addressing care transitions in APM design, and measuring care transition quality.
June 12, 2023
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panel Discussion Guides
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Environmental Scan: Improving Management of Care Transitions in Population-Based Models
- Analysis: Impact of Transitional Care Management Services on Utilization, Health Outcomes, and Cost Among Medicare Beneficiaries, 2018-2019
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
June 13, 2023
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
PTAC’s March 2023 public meeting focused on specialist integration within Population-Based Total Cost of Care (PB-TCOC) models and physician-focused payment models. Topics discussed included improving specialty integration in advanced primary care models and Accountable Care Organizations; approaches for structuring coordination between primary care providers and specialists; options for defining and embedding specialty episodes within population-based models; structuring financial incentives; identifying appropriate performance measures; and addressing challenges affecting safety net providers and rural providers.
March 2, 2023
Beginning at 9:30 AM EST
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panel Discussion Guides
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Environmental Scan: Improving Care Delivery & Integrating Specialty Care in Population-Based Models
- Presentations
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
March 3, 2023
Beginning at 9:00 AM EST
PTAC held a series of theme-based discussions throughout 2022 to give Committee members current perspectives on the role that population-based total cost of care (TCOC) models can play in optimizing health care delivery and value-based transformation in the context of alternative payment models and physician-focused payment models.
PTAC’s 2022 public meetings were held virtually.
September 19-20, 2022
The September meeting was part of a series of theme-based meetings PTAC held to inform the Committee on topics important to population-based total cost of care (PB-TCOC) models and physician-focused payment models (PFPMs) throughout 2022. The meeting focused on payment considerations and financial incentives related to PB-TCOC models. The first meeting in the series centered on key definitions, issues, and opportunities related to these models, and the second meeting addressed care delivery model design.
September 19, 2022
Beginning at 8:45 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panelist Questions
- Listening Session Discussion Guide
- Second Supplement to the Environmental Scan Related to the Development of Population-Based Total Cost of Care Models
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
September 20, 2022
Beginning at 8:45 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Subject Matter Expert Listening Session Presentations
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
June 7-8, 2022
Theme-based Discussion on Population-Based Total Cost of Care (TCOC) Models: As part of PTAC’s 2022 series, the Committee’s June 2022 Public Meeting focused on care delivery model design. Topics discussed included lessons learned from entities that have been successful in bearing financial risk for managing care for broad and specific populations; best practices for incorporating specialty care innovation into population-based TCOC models; relevant performance metrics; and addressing equity.
June 7, 2022
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Supplement to the Environmental Scan on Population-Based Total Cost of Care Models
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
June 8, 2022
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panelist Questions
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Subject Matter Expert Listening Session Presentations
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
March 7-8, 2022
Theme-based Discussion on Population-Based Total Cost of Care (TCOC) Models: As part of PTAC’s 2022 series, the Committee’s March 2022 Public Meeting focused on key definitions, issues and opportunities related to developing and implementing population-based TCOC models—including potential relationships between larger population-based models and episode-based or condition-specific models.
March 7, 2022
Beginning at 10:00 AM EST
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Listening Session Facilitation Questions
- Population-Based Total Cost of Care Models Environmental Scan
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
March 8, 2022
Beginning at 11:00 AM EST
PTAC’s 2021 public meetings were held virtually.
September 27, 2021
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
Theme-based Discussion on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Equity: The September 27 PTAC Public Meeting included a theme-based discussion designed to give Committee members information about current perspectives on how efforts to address SDOH and equity can be further optimized in the context of APMs and value-based care generally, and in the context of PFPMs specifically.
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panelist Questions
- SDOH and Equity Overview Document
- SDOH and Equity PTAC Proposal and CMMI Model Analysis
- Presentations:
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
June 10, 2021
Beginning at 10:00 AM EDT
Theme-based Discussion on Care Coordination: The June 10 Public Meeting included a theme-based discussion designed to give Committee members information about current perspectives on the role care coordination can play in optimizing health care delivery and value-based transformation in the context of alternative payment models (APMs) and physician-focused payment models specifically.
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panelist Questions
- Care Coordination Environmental Scan
- Analysis of 2019 Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) Claims for Chronic Care Management (CCM) and Transitional Care Management (TCM) Services
- Presentation
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
PTAC’s 2020 public meetings will be held virtually.
December 8, 2020
Beginning at 10:00 AM EST
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Telehealth Issues Raised During the 9/16 PTAC Public Meeting
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting and Update on Virtual Meeting
September 16, 2020
Beginning at 10:00 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Panelist Biographies
- Panelist Questions
- Telehealth Environmental Scan
- Presentation
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting and Update on Virtual Meeting
September 15, 2020
Beginning at 10:00 AM EDT
- Agenda
- Presentations
- Minutes
- Video Recording
- Meeting Transcript
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting and Update on Virtual Meeting
June 22, 2020
Beginning at 10:00 AM EDT
September 16, 2019
Beginning at 12:30 PM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
June 17, 2019
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
March 11, 2019
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
December 10, 2018
Beginning at 12:30 PM EST
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
September 7, 2018
Beginning at 8:30 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
September 6, 2018
Beginning at 8:30 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
March 27, 2018
Beginning at 8:30 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
March 26, 2018
Beginning at 8:30 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
December 19, 2017
Beginning at 9:00 AM EST
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
December 18, 2017
Beginning at 9:00 AM EST
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
September 8, 2017
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
September 7, 2017
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
April 11, 2017
8:00 AM to 5:00 PM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
April 10, 2017
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM EDT
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
March 13, 2017
1:00 PM to 3:45 PM EST
The Great Hall
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201
December 16, 2016
10:15 AM to 2:45 PM EST
Holiday Inn
Capital Room I
550 C Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
- Agenda
- Processes for Reviewing and Evaluating Proposed Physician-Focused Payment Models and Making Recommendations to the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services- DRAFT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT
- Presentations
- Minutes
- Meeting Transcript
September 16, 2016
9:00 AM to 12:30 PM EDT
Residence Inn Marriott
Senate Meeting Room
333 E Street, SW, Washington, DC 20024
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
- Agenda
- Document For Public Comment (Revised Draft Proposal Process)
- PTAC Response to Public Comment on Proposal Review Process
- Document for Public Comment: Proposal Information Requirements
- Presentation
- Minutes
May 4, 2016
12:00 PM to 3:00 PM EDT
Hyatt Place Washington DC/National Mall
400 E Street SW, Room 4&5
Washington, D.C., USA, 20024
- Federal Register Notice of Meeting
- Agenda
- Document For Public Comment (Draft Proposal Process)
- Presentation
- Minutes
February 1, 2016
1:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST
Room 505A
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC 20201