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Ost Ambulance Service
Ost Ambulance Service was paid $1.83M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2021, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 28% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoOST AMBULANCE SERVICE
PINE RIDGE, SD 57770
PINE RIDGE, SD 57770
33aNPI1154511962assigned 07/27/2007
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$1.83M
24GClaims19,776
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in South Dakota
Rank by total paid#2 of 10
Median peer was paid$53K
This provider vs. median35×
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 | 7,146 | $749K | |
| 2019 | 5,417 | $542K | |
| 2020 | 3,951 | $293K | |
| 2021 | 3,262 | $245K |
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) | 28% | 2,679 | 2,162 | $507K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 25% | 4,885 | 3,709 | $465K |
| S0215 | Non-emergency transportation; mileage, per mile | 23% | 3,810 | 2,113 | $423K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 7.2% | 1,016 | 863 | $131K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 6.9% | 803 | 671 | $126K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 6.2% | 699 | 550 | $113K |
| A0380 | Bls mileage (per mile) | 1.5% | 279 | 248 | $28K |
| A0120 | Non-emergency transportation: mini-bus, mountain area transports, or other transportation systems | 1.2% | 5,102 | 2,221 | $21K |
| A0394 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; iv drug therapy | <1% | 330 | 309 | $12K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 173 | 152 | $3K |
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 officialYELLOW BOY, TYLER (OST AMBULANCE DIRECTOR)