Congress’ Medicare pay advisors generally favored telling HHS to pare down the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation’s collection of demonstrations and focus on a smaller number of more coordinated models -- though Chair Michael Chernew said the commission has a lot of work to do on alternative payment models. The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission discussed a draft recommendation Thursday (March 4) that states: “The Secretary should implement a more coordinated portfolio of fewer alternative payment models that support the...