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News release
11/28/2005
2006 Ambulance Inflation Factor Published
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published the 2006 Ambulance Inflation Factor (AIF) in the Federal Register dated Friday, November 25, 2005.  The 2006 AIF will be 2.5%. This will apply to transports with dates of service between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2006. Click here for the full text from the Federal Register. To view recommendations for Ortivus North America customers in reference to this issue, please read this article written by Steve Johnson, Director of Sweet Billing.
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About Ortivus:
Ortivus offers integrated software solutions for Emergency Medical Services and Public Safety. The North American Subsidiary develops and markets the following pre-hospital applications: EMS billing, patient care reporting, computer-aided dispatch, automatic vehicle location, mobile data application, and patient vital signs monitoring and data transmission.
The Ortivus vision is to be the customer’s preferred provider of integrated information and decision-making software support systems in the Emergency Medical Service, Public Safety and Healthcare industries.
Ortivus operates out of two North American corporate office locations (Decorah, Iowa, US and Montreal, Quebec, Canada), as well as several international locations (Sweden, Denmark, Germany and Great Britain).