Dissecting the Ambulance Inflation Factor for 2018 AIF Announced The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced the Ambulance Inflation Factor (AIF) for Calendar Year 2018 (CY 2018). Once again this year, the AIF is positive so let’s take a look at how we’ve arrived at this adjustment.  CPI-U – MFP = AIF Two […]
Explaining the Ambulance Inflation Factor This Week This week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the Ambulance Inflation Factor (AIF) for Calendar Year 2016 (CY 2016). For the first time ever the AIF is a negative value, meaning it will impact the National Medicare Ambulance Fee Schedule by a negative four tenths of […]
Avoid the Ambulance Industry’s “Fiscal Cliff” Call to Action! This week’s blog is a Call to Action!! Earlier this week Stephen Williamson, President of the American Ambulance Association, sent out a stern warning concerning the looming expiration of the temporary Medicare ambulance add-on bonus payments that can disappear when 2012 draws to a close. These […]
