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Armstrong Ambulance Service
Armstrong Ambulance Service was paid $12.43M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 41% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoARMSTRONG AMBULANCE SERVICE
ARLINGTON, MA 02474
ARLINGTON, MA 02474
33aNPI1174513501assigned 10/26/2005
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$12.43M
24GClaims181,511
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#4 of 120
Median peer was paid$282K
This provider vs. median44×
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 | 36,560 | $1.46M | |
| 2019 | 29,854 | $1.38M | |
| 2020 | 20,394 | $1.27M | |
| 2021 | 26,243 | $1.56M | |
| 2022 | 22,707 | $1.73M | |
| 2023 | 22,415 | $2.32M | |
| 2024incomplete | 23,338 | $2.70M |
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) | 41% | 30,023 | 25,390 | $5.15M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 22% | 31,093 | 20,345 | $2.74M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 16% | 10,876 | 10,135 | $2.04M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 13% | 71,892 | 52,788 | $1.57M |
| A0130 | Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van | 4.3% | 18,216 | 6,504 | $530K |
| S0215 | Non-emergency transportation; mileage, per mile | 1.8% | 17,641 | 6,307 | $222K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | <1% | 626 | 611 | $83K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | <1% | 144 | 140 | $50K |
| A0999 | Unlisted ambulance service | <1% | 842 | 698 | $41K |
| 93000 | <1% | 118 | 113 | $5K | |
| A0394 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; iv drug therapy | <1% | 14 | 14 | $900.00 |
| 0012A | <1% | 13 | 13 | $56.78 |
1 more codes
| 0011A | <1% | 13 | $33.88 |
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 officialARMSTRONG BRADY, GALE (CFO)