Area Ambulance Authority

Area Ambulance Authority was paid $4.57M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 45% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoAREA AMBULANCE AUTHORITY
CEDAR RAPIDS, IA 52404

33aNPI1174513311assigned 10/27/2005

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$4.57M

24GClaims93,827

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#7 of 87

Median peer was paid$99K

This provider vs. median46×

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	12,672	$520K
2019	12,784	$584K
2020	12,828	$651K
2021	13,434	$721K
2022	14,707	$735K
2023	13,996	$715K
2024incomplete	13,406	$643K

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%	21,955	18,738	$2.07M
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	39%	21,226	16,807	$1.77M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	12%	47,197	35,960	$532K
A0428	Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls)	2.9%	2,642	2,322	$134K
A0426	Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1)	1.3%	794	742	$60K
A0433	Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2)	<1%	13	12	$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 officialZAHRT, JENNIFER (VICE PRESIDENT)