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Highlands Volunteer Fire Department

Highlands Volunteer Fire Department was paid $53K by Medicaid between Oct 2021 and Sep 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 58% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHIGHLANDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
HIGHLANDS, TX 77562
33aNPI1194938704assigned 05/08/2007
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$53K
24GClaims899
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthOct 2021 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Texas

Rank by total paid#205 of 288
Median peer was paid$215K
This provider vs. median0.2×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official JONES, MICHAEL controls 15+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$5.0K$10K$15K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
202126$735.38
2022339$22K
2023419$27K
2024incomplete115$3K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
A0429 Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) 58% 157 113 $31K
A0425 Ground mileage, per statute mile 22% 396 324 $12K
A0427 Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) 14% 29 28 $7K
A0382 Bls routine disposable supplies 6.3% 317 246 $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 officialJONES, MICHAEL (EMS DIRECTOR)
Parent organizationHIGHLANDS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
Same official

Other billing entities under JONES, MICHAEL

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.