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PTAC Meetings

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

June 3-4, 2025
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT

September 8-9, 2025
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT

December 9-10, 2025
Beginning at 9:30 AM EST

Federal Register Notice of Meetings

Past 2025 Meetings

March 3-4, 2025

PTAC’s March 2025 meeting focused on:

  • Understanding factors that affect different kinds of organizations’ business decisions about participating in PB-TCOC models;
  • Approaches for streamlining models, improving the predictability of benchmarks, and incentivizing the participation of different kinds of organizations in PB-TCOC models;
  • Specific incentives for improving clinical integration and supporting primary and specialty care transformation in different kinds of organizations participating in value-based care; and
  • Enhancing the sustainability and competitiveness of PB-TCOC models.

March 3, 2025
Beginning at 9:30 EST

March 4, 2025
Beginning at 9:00 EST

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

September 17, 2024

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

June 11, 2024
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT

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

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

September 19, 2023
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT

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

June 13, 2023
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT

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

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

September 20, 2022
Beginning at 8:45 AM EDT

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

June 8, 2022
Beginning at 9:30 AM EDT

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

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.

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.

PTAC’s 2020 public meetings will be held virtually.

December 8, 2020
Beginning at 10:00 AM EST

September 16, 2020
Beginning at 10:00 AM EDT

September 15, 2020
Beginning at 10:00 AM EDT

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

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

June 3-4, 2025
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT

September 8-9, 2025
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT

December 9-10, 2025
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT

Federal Register Notice of Meetings

March 3-4, 2025

Building on the Committee’s ongoing series of theme-based discussions on developing and implementing PB-TCOC models, topics discussed at PTAC’s March 2025 meeting will include:

  • Understanding factors that affect different kinds of organizations’ business decisions about participating in PB-TCOC models;
  • Approaches for streamlining models, improving the predictability of benchmarks, and incentivizing the participation of different kinds of organizations in PB-TCOC models;
  • Specific incentives for improving clinical integration and supporting primary and specialty care transformation in different kinds of organizations participating in value-based care; and
  • Enhancing the sustainability and competitiveness of PB-TCOC models.

March 3, 2025
Beginning at 9:30 EST

  • Register
  • Agenda
  • Panelist Biographies

March 4, 2025
Beginning at 9:30 EST

  • Register
  • Agenda
  • Panelist Biographies

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

September 17, 2024

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

June 11, 2024
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT

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

March 26, 2024
Beginning at 9:00 AM EDT