Transport
City of Portland
City of Portland was paid $5.40M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 55% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF PORTLAND
PORTLAND, ME 04101
PORTLAND, ME 04101
33aNPI1134185648assigned 04/24/2006
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$5.40M
24GClaims63,910
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Maine
Rank by total paid#3 of 86
Median peer was paid$150K
This provider vs. median36×
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 | 6,295 | $465K | |
| 2019 | 9,708 | $679K | |
| 2020 | 8,284 | $882K | |
| 2021 | 9,980 | $1.01M | |
| 2022 | 15,603 | $1.12M | |
| 2023 | 12,914 | $1.16M | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,126 | $80K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 55% | 16,929 | 12,234 | $2.95M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 42% | 12,694 | 9,941 | $2.25M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 3.6% | 29,674 | 20,974 | $196K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | <1% | 2,539 | 1,924 | $796.18 |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 269 | 196 | $145.12 |
| A4556 | Electrodes, (e.g., apnea monitor), per pair | <1% | 1,805 | 1,373 | $39.11 |
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 officialGOODALL, CHRISTOPHER (ASSISTANT FIRE CHIEF)