Yesterday evening, March 14, the United States Senate by a vote of 54 to 46 passed the Full-Year Continuining Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025 (H.R. 1968) to fund the federal government through the end of the 2025 fiscal year ending September 30. An extension of the current levels of the temporary Medicare ambulance add-on payments was included in H.R. 1968 with an expiration date of also September 30. President Trump is expected to sign H.R. 1968 into law shortly.

The AAA, our champions and supporters on Capitol Hill, and EMS partner organizations fought hard to ensure the ambulance extension was included in the lean bill of just 99 pages. We greatly appreciate the outreach by the AAA membership and state EMS associations to their members of Congress in support of the extension of the ambulance add-on payments. The AAA will continue to advocate for a long-term extension of the add-on payments at the higher levels of 3.4% urban, 4.3% rural and 26.7% super rural.

Revised versions of the Protecting Access to Ground Ambulance Medical Services Act with a long-term extension of the add-on payments, and at the higher levels in the Senate bill, will be reintroduced in the near future. Once introduced, we will be launching a new Call To Action asking you to contact your members of Congress to cosponsor the legislation