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Med Care Emergency Medical Services INC
Med Care Emergency Medical Services INC was paid $10.85M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 14 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 49% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMED CARE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC
MCALLEN, TX 78503
MCALLEN, TX 78503
33aNPI1063588143assigned 11/28/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$10.85M
24GClaims170,643
24DCodes billed14
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#8 of 184
Median peer was paid$197K
This provider vs. median55×
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 | 18,480 | $978K | |
| 2019 | 16,479 | $920K | |
| 2020 | 14,388 | $729K | |
| 2021 | 35,026 | $2.32M | |
| 2022 | 39,710 | $2.61M | |
| 2023 | 29,268 | $2.15M | |
| 2024incomplete | 17,292 | $1.13M |
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) | 49% | 32,785 | 28,442 | $5.27M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 31% | 19,869 | 17,531 | $3.33M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 12% | 64,488 | 51,274 | $1.28M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 3.6% | 10,433 | 9,134 | $389K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | 2.5% | 17,830 | 15,543 | $269K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 2.3% | 19,032 | 16,120 | $247K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 2,824 | 2,540 | $33K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | <1% | 286 | 281 | $14K |
| A0433 | Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2) | <1% | 49 | 49 | $8K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | <1% | 18 | 18 | $3K |
| A0394 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; iv drug therapy | <1% | 2,886 | 2,646 | $183.05 |
| A0999 | Unlisted ambulance service | <1% | 41 | 39 | $28.56 |
2 more codes
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 officialONTIVEROS, CANDELARIO (PRESIDENT)