Who is affected and how:

• Health care providers and clinicians who participate in Medicare alternative payment models: Directly affected because the amendment preserves statutory language authorizing incentive payments for the additional year, helping ensure continuity of expected incentives for participation.
• CMS and HHS program staff: Must apply the updated statutory references when administering incentive payments and ensure forms, guidance, and cross-referenced regulations align with the amended years.
• Medicare beneficiaries: Indirectly affected if provider participation incentives influence provider behavior or program continuity, but the amendment does not change beneficiary benefits or access rules.
• Federal budget/finance offices: Minimal, technical impact; the change clarifies authorization language but does not itself appropriate new funds or change payment formulas.

Overall effect: The legislation is a narrowly focused technical fix to extend or clarify the years during which statutory incentive payment authority for eligible alternative payment models applies. It reduces legal ambiguity about coverage of incentive payments for the newly referenced year(s) and supports continuity for providers participating in APMs. It does not create new programmatic obligations for states or localities and does not alter benefit rules for beneficiaries.