Drexel Heights Fire District

Drexel Heights Fire District was paid $9.38M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 48% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDREXEL HEIGHTS FIRE DISTRICT
TUCSON, AZ 85735

33aNPI1154324283assigned 05/23/2005

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$9.38M

24GClaims19,950

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Arizona

Rank by total paid#17 of 61

Median peer was paid$3.83M

This provider vs. median2.4×

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	3,195	$1.35M
2019	2,967	$1.30M
2020	2,960	$1.38M
2021	2,910	$1.36M
2022	3,070	$1.44M
2023	2,709	$1.37M
2024incomplete	2,139	$1.17M

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)	48%	5,731	5,342	$4.51M
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	35%	4,141	3,843	$3.31M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	14%	9,872	8,975	$1.34M
A0998	Ambulance response and treatment, no transport	2.4%	206	199	$224K

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 officialCHAPPELL, DOUGLAS (FIRE CHIEF)