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Balentine Ambulance Service INC.
Balentine Ambulance Service INC. was paid $6.16M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is A0428, Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) — 42% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBALENTINE AMBULANCE SERVICE INC.
SHREVEPORT, LA 71103
SHREVEPORT, LA 71103
33aNPI1245218452assigned 01/06/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$6.16M
24GClaims160,689
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Louisiana
Rank by total paid#8 of 23
Median peer was paid$1.48M
This provider vs. median4.2×
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.
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 | 24,670 | $621K | |
| 2019 | 24,042 | $807K | |
| 2020 | 28,399 | $927K | |
| 2021 | 26,927 | $1.51M | |
| 2022 | 21,174 | $836K | |
| 2023 | 24,658 | $1.21M | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,819 | $256K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 42% | 60,444 | 25,436 | $2.57M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 39% | 77,962 | 33,250 | $2.41M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 16% | 14,391 | 11,457 | $987K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 2.6% | 2,932 | 1,981 | $159K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | <1% | 2,427 | 1,740 | $22K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | <1% | 133 | 100 | $7K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | <1% | 69 | 52 | $3K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 83 | 55 | $2K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | <1% | 2,248 | 1,064 | $294.54 |
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 officialMCBEATH, PAMELA (PRESIDENT-CEO)