Transport
South Area Fire & Emergency Response District
South Area Fire & Emergency Response District was paid $354K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 71% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUTH AREA FIRE & EMERGENCY RESPONSE DISTRICT
WAUSAU, WI 54401
WAUSAU, WI 54401
33aNPI1033548235assigned 11/07/2013
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$354K
24GClaims4,761
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Wisconsin
Rank by total paid#10 of 36
Median peer was paid$91K
This provider vs. median3.9×
Peers share this provider's primary NPPES type and state. Size alone says nothing about billing quality: a big agency or a hospital system is expected to sit far above the median.
Box 24A · Dates of service
Paid by month
Paid that monthNov–Dec 2024: claims still arriving when the file was cut, so these months run low for every provider
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 547 | $21K | |
| 2019 | 597 | $30K | |
| 2020 | 791 | $37K | |
| 2021 | 818 | $48K | |
| 2022 | 989 | $105K | |
| 2023 | 668 | $80K | |
| 2024incomplete | 351 | $32K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 71% | 1,844 | 1,611 | $250K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 17% | 594 | 501 | $60K |
| A0390 | Als mileage (per mile) | 10% | 830 | 726 | $36K |
| A0998 | Ambulance response and treatment, no transport | 1.4% | 76 | 69 | $5K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | <1% | 1,391 | 1,120 | $2K |
| A0380 | Bls mileage (per mile) | <1% | 26 | 24 | $799.45 |
Claims and beneficiary counts add up across code × month rows, so one patient seen every month counts many times. Rows with fewer than 12 claims are suppressed by HHS, so small lines can be missing.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialFINKE, JOSH (FIRE CHIEF)