Carolinas Medical Center
Carolinas Medical Center was paid $17.00M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is A0431, Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing) — 75% of everything it billed.
CHARLOTTE, NC 28203
Next to other Ambulance providers in North Carolina
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5,582 | $858K | |
| 2019 | 5,634 | $925K | |
| 2020 | 5,580 | $752K | |
| 2021 | 8,588 | $3.53M | |
| 2022 | 8,255 | $4.18M | |
| 2023 | 4,995 | $3.85M | |
| 2024incomplete | 3,644 | $2.89M |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0431 | Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing) | 75% | 4,308 | 3,396 | $12.68M |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 6.0% | 8,157 | 6,963 | $1.02M |
| A0436 | Rotary wing air mileage, per statute mile | 5.1% | 3,783 | 3,015 | $872K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 4.5% | 1,421 | 1,073 | $767K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 4.5% | 17,017 | 13,733 | $759K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 4.4% | 6,846 | 5,844 | $748K |
| A0433 | Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2) | <1% | 414 | 331 | $87K |
| A0430 | Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (fixed wing) | <1% | 32 | 24 | $44K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | <1% | 274 | 227 | $15K |
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | <1% | 26 | 26 | $135.00 |
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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.