; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (11) Payment for recovery activities performed after fiscal year 2017 (A) In general Under the contracts, subject to subparagraphs (B) and (C), payment shall be made to recovery audit contractors for recovery activities conducted during fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year thereafter in the same manner, and from the same amounts, as payment is made to eligible entities under contracts entered into for recovery activities conducted during fiscal year 2015 under subsection (a). (B) Prohibition on incentive payments Under the contracts, payment made to a recovery audit contractor for recovery activities conducted during fiscal year 2018 or any fiscal year thereafter may not include any incentive payments. (C) Performance accountability (i) In general Under the contracts, payment made to a recovery audit contractor for recovery activities conducted during fiscal year 2018 or any fiscal year thereafter shall, in the case that the contractor has a complex audit denial overturn rate at the end of such fiscal year (as calculated under the methodology described in clause (iv)) that is .1 or greater, be reduced in an amount determined in accordance with clause (ii). (ii) Payment reductions (I) Sliding scale of amount of reductions The Secretary shall establish, for purposes of determining the amount of a reduction in payment to a recovery audit contractor under clause (i) for recovery activities conducted during fiscal year, a linear sliding scale of payment reductions for recovery audit contractors for such fiscal year. Under such linear sliding scale, the amount of such a reduction in payment to a recovery audit contractor for a fiscal year shall be calculated in a manner that provides for such reduction to be greater than the reduction for such fiscal year for recovery audit contractors that have complex audit denial overturn rates at the end of such fiscal year (as calculated under the methodology described in clause (iv)) that are lower than the complex