The California Division of Workers' Compensation announced Tuesday that the inflation factor for ambulance services will decrease slightly next year.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has determined the ambulance inflation factor for 2011 will be a negative tenth of 1 percent (-0.1%). Although the consumer price index increased by 1.1%, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires the ambulance inflation factor be reduced by a multi-factor productivity adjustment, which will be 1.2%, which results in an ambulance inflation factor of -0.1%.Although CMS has state...
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