Bright Star Ambulance, INC.

Bright Star Ambulance, INC. was paid $663K by Medicaid between Nov 2018 and Apr 2023, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 29% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoBRIGHT STAR AMBULANCE, INC.
OSWEGO, IL 60543

33aNPI1235403841assigned 02/29/2012

33bProvider typeAmbulance

28Total paid$663K

24GClaims15,884

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthNov 2018 – Apr 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Ambulance providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#68 of 137

Median peer was paid$601K

This provider vs. median1.1×

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	197	$944.69
2019	5,561	$143K
2020	4,392	$159K
2021	3,337	$203K
2022	2,104	$138K
2023	293	$19K

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)	29%	712	624	$195K
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	29%	748	627	$193K
A0130	Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van	19%	5,293	454	$126K
A0428	Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls)	15%	2,616	296	$98K
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	7.6%	6,515	1,776	$51K

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 officialHEJJA, SAM (OWNER)