City of Palm Desert

City of Palm Desert was paid $642K by Medicaid between Sep 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 45% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCITY OF PALM DESERT
PALM DESERT, CA 92260

33aNPI1083117741assigned 03/08/2018

33bProvider typeAmbulance

28Total paid$642K

24GClaims11,494

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthSep 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Ambulance providers in California

Rank by total paid#59 of 96

Median peer was paid$1.63M

This provider vs. median0.4×

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	512	$25K
2019	1,731	$95K
2020	1,580	$88K
2021	1,831	$101K
2022	1,738	$99K
2023	2,214	$137K
2024incomplete	1,888	$96K

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)	45%	2,722	2,594	$286K
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	43%	2,365	2,218	$273K
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	9.2%	4,605	4,243	$59K
93041		2.8%	1,204	1,154	$18K
93005	Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report	<1%	598	583	$4K

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 officialHILE,AN, LAWRENCE (CITY MANAGER)