Transport
North Star Emergency Services, INC.
North Star Emergency Services, INC. was paid $21.22M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is A0425, Ground mileage, per statute mile — 32% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNORTH STAR EMERGENCY SERVICES, INC.
LIVERMORE, CA 94551
LIVERMORE, CA 94551
33aNPI1053475905assigned 12/21/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$21.22M
24GClaims210,131
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in California
Rank by total paid#11 of 96
Median peer was paid$1.63M
This provider vs. median13×
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 | 23,360 | $1.45M | |
| 2019 | 28,308 | $1.82M | |
| 2020 | 20,718 | $1.82M | |
| 2021 | 16,787 | $2.03M | |
| 2022 | 26,349 | $2.68M | |
| 2023 | 47,001 | $4.98M | |
| 2024incomplete | 47,608 | $6.45M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 32% | 74,365 | 64,300 | $6.72M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 26% | 24,263 | 22,855 | $5.52M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 21% | 38,807 | 32,409 | $4.49M |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | 5.6% | 5,588 | 5,281 | $1.20M |
| A0225 | Ambulance service, neonatal transport, base rate, emergency transport, one way | 4.6% | 1,505 | 1,427 | $979K |
| A0999 | Unlisted ambulance service | 3.2% | 942 | 676 | $685K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 2.4% | 2,042 | 1,976 | $499K |
| T2005 | Non-emergency transportation; stretcher van | 1.9% | 15,503 | 13,593 | $401K |
| A0380 | Bls mileage (per mile) | 1.1% | 16,612 | 13,777 | $229K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 1.0% | 1,487 | 1,356 | $213K |
| T2001 | Non-emergency transportation; patient attendant/escort | <1% | 14,183 | 12,335 | $75K |
| 93041 | <1% | 4,778 | 4,570 | $73K |
4 more codes
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 5,270 | $51K |
| A0130 | Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van | <1% | 2,101 | $43K |
| A0424 | Extra ambulance attendant, ground (als or bls) or air (fixed or rotary winged); (requires medical review) | <1% | 2,637 | $41K |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | <1% | 48 | $337.94 |
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 officialNAZARENO, KARLA (CEO AND FOUNDER)