Southwest Ambulance of Tucson INC
Southwest Ambulance of Tucson INC was paid $98.54M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 62% of everything it billed.
TUCSON, AZ 85705
Next to other Ambulance providers in Arizona
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 72,527 | $12.65M | |
| 2019 | 74,649 | $13.19M | |
| 2020 | 65,772 | $11.98M | |
| 2021 | 74,317 | $13.58M | |
| 2022 | 74,672 | $15.09M | |
| 2023 | 79,854 | $17.44M | |
| 2024incomplete | 61,626 | $14.62M |
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) | 62% | 115,700 | 95,531 | $60.61M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 16% | 31,509 | 26,592 | $15.41M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 12% | 164,047 | 129,784 | $12.02M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 5.5% | 9,428 | 8,456 | $5.46M |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 3.4% | 6,258 | 5,476 | $3.30M |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | <1% | 141,770 | 110,630 | $910K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | <1% | 16,309 | 13,405 | $355K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | <1% | 357 | 331 | $255K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 17,402 | 14,348 | $117K |
| A0420 | Ambulance waiting time (als or bls), one half (1/2) hour increments | <1% | 637 | 405 | $93K |
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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.