ACS Awarded $35 Million Contract Extension for EMS Billing Services With City of Houston

DALLAS, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) today announced a seven-year, $35 million extension to its existing Emergency Medical Services (EMS) billing contract with the City of Houston.

Under the terms of the contract, ACS recovers ambulance transport fees for the Houston Fire Department from third party payers, such as Medicaid, Medicare, and private insurance firms. As part of the billing service, ACS also provides all mobile software and hardware required for the city's EMS operation.

"ACS pioneered the development and implementation of an electronic field data collection solution in Houston in 1995, providing a solution wirelessly coupled to an EMS billing and collection system," said Alfred Moran, Deputy Director of Finance and Administration at the City of Houston. "ACS helped Houston improve responder resource management with new technology and we look forward to many more years of innovative services from them."

ACS has processed more than 2 million EMS ambulance transports and recovered a quarter of a billion dollars for the city since 1995.

"ACS field technology has enabled Houston to create one of the most technologically advanced EMS 911 Patient Care Documentation Solutions in the nation," said Paul Lehman, ACS senior vice president, State and Local Solutions. "We look forward to continuing our good relationship with the city and to providing further technological innovations going forward."

ACS, a global FORTUNE 500 company with 62,000 people supporting client operations reaching more than 100 countries, provides business process outsourcing and information technology solutions to world-class commercial and government clients. The company's Class A common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "ACS." ACS makes technology work. Visit ACS on the Internet at http://www.acs-inc.com.

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