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AAA Member Profile Update

Written by AAA Staff on . Posted in AAA HQ, Events, Leadership & Management, Member Advisories.

New in Your Member Profile:
Track Your Progress and Print Your Certificates Anytime

We’re excited to roll out a new enhancement to the AAA member portal that makes it easier than ever to track your professional development journey.

If you’ve attended any sessions that earn credits toward the Shift Dynamics or AAARC Certificate Programs, your member profile now includes a personalized progress dashboard and the ability to generate a printable, ready-to-share certificate after your registration is confirmed and the course is complete.

What’s New

  • Real-time progress tracking. Log in to your AAA member profile and see exactly where you stand in your Shift Dynamics or AAARC Certificate Program journey: completed modules, remaining requirements, and overall progress, all in one place.

  • On-demand printable certificates. Once you’ve met the requirements, you can generate and print your official certificate directly from your profile, no more waiting on staff to process and email a copy.

  • One central hub. If you’re enrolled in multiple programs, you can view progress across all of them from a single dashboard instead of tracking emails or spreadsheets on your own.

What’s New

  • Real-time progress tracking. Log in to your AAA member profile and see exactly where you stand in your Shift Dynamics or AAARC Certificate Program journey: completed modules, remaining requirements, and overall progress, all in one place.

  • On-demand printable certificates. Once you’ve met the requirements, you can generate and print your official certificate directly from your profile, no more waiting on staff to process and email a copy.

  • One central hub. If you’re enrolled in multiple programs, you can view progress across all of them from a single dashboard instead of tracking emails or spreadsheets on your own.

Why We Built This

Your feedback was clear: members want more visibility into their progress and faster access to proof of completion. Share your progress as part of a performance review, a job application, continuing education documentation, or just the satisfaction of seeing how far you’ve come. This update puts that information directly in your hands, available whenever you need it.

How to Access It

  1. Log in to your AAA member profile at www.ambulance.org.

  2. Navigate to the Certificates section.
    (Note: you will only see this if you have taken at least one certificate course)

  3. View your progress for the Shift Dynamics and/or AAARC Certificate Program.

  4. Click Download Certificate to save or print a copy for your records.

Getting Started

Not yet enrolled in Shift Dynamics or the AAARC Certificate Program? Check out our upcoming workshops or reach out to our team to get started. Current participants can log in today to see their progress dashboard live.

As always, we welcome your feedback on this new feature — share your questions or suggestions with our team.

This is the first of several member portal and website enhancements planned for the next two years. Stay tuned for more updates designed to make your AAA membership experience more connected and more valuable.

 

AAA Preliminary Calculation of 2027 Medicare AIF is 2.6%

Written by Brian Werfel on . Posted in AAA HQ, Executive, Finance, Government Affairs, Medicare, Member Advisories.

 1834(l)(3)(B) of the Social Security Act mandates that the Medicare Ambulance Fee Schedule be updated each year to reflect inflation. This update is referred to as the “Ambulance Inflation Factor” or “AIF”.  

 

The AIF is calculated by measuring the increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers (CPI-U) for the 12-month period ending with June of the previous year. Starting in calendar year 2011, the change in the CPI-U is now reduced by a so-called “productivity adjustment”, which is equal to the 10-year moving average of changes in the economy-wide private nonfarm business multi-factor productivity index (MFP). The MFP reduction may result in a negative AIF for any calendar year. The resulting AIF is then added to the conversion factor used to calculate Medicare payments under the Ambulance Fee Schedule.  

 

For the 12-month period ending in June 2026, the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has calculated that the CPI-U has increased by 3.5%.  

 

CMS has yet to release its estimate for the MFP for calendar year 2027. Since its inception, this number has fluctuated between 0.3% and 1.2%. In several Medicare final rules issued in July 2026, CMS indicated that it would use an MFP of 0.9%. These final rules have historically been a useful predictor of the eventual MFP for the AIF; however, the MFP can change to the extent newer data becomes available.

 

Accordingly, the AAA is projecting that the 2027 Ambulance Inflation Factor will likely be 2.6%, plus or minus 0.1%.

 

The AAA will notify members once CMS issues this fall a transmittal setting forth the official 2027 Ambulance Inflation Factor.

 

8-20-2026 Membership Advisory

CMS Seeking Comments on Medicaid State Directed Payments Including Provider Assessment, IGT, and GEMT, Proposed Rules

Written by Shawn Baird on . Posted in Government Affairs, Member Advisories, Regulatory.

The AAA will be submitting comment about the underfunding of ambulance service to CMS in it’s rulemaking on Medicaid State Directed Payments. Many states have implemented Medicaid supplemental payment programs. Under HR.1, passed last July, no additional states may implement these programs. Additionally states that have them must not exceed Medicare payment for the same services. Because of the state by state variablility of these programs, the AAA is focusing it’s comment on the fact that basing payment on Medicare is insufficient to assure patient access to vital ambulance services. Medicare has been demonstrated through multiple studies to pay well below cost for ambulance services.

Attached are the AAA comments, as well as a guide that individual companies and state associations may wish to use in formulating their own comment letter, specific to their state situation.

State and Agency Comment to CMS on SDP Rule

Final-SDP-CMS-Rule-Comment-Letter-7.10.2026

House Passes 2-Year Ambulance Medicare Relief Extension

Written by Tristan North on . Posted in Government Affairs, Legislative, Medicare, Member Advisories.

The U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 341 to 88 has passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2026, which would fund the rest of the Federal government for the remainder of FY 2026. Included in the legislative package is an extension for 23 months of the 2% urban, 3% rural, and 22.6% super rural temporary increases in Medicare payments for ground ambulance service organizations. The Senate is scheduled to consider the package next week in time to avoid a partial government shutdown at the end of the month.

The temporary ambulance increases currently run through January 30. Under the package, the increases would be extended through December 31, 2027. Most of the temporary Medicare provider and supplier provisions set to expire would be extended for 11 months through the end of this year. As a result of the efforts of our champions and supporters on Capitol Hill, we were able to secure a longer extension at the same duration of the temporary telehealth provision.

According to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, the additional year will provide more than $100 million in relief for a total of $197 million in continued funding to ground ambulance service organizations over the next 23 months.

We will keep you informed as to the Senate consideration of the package.

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