Southern Garrett County Rescue Squad INC

Southern Garrett County Rescue Squad INC was paid $330K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 64% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTHERN GARRETT COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD INC
OAKLAND, MD 21550

33aNPI1245241967assigned 08/10/2006

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$330K

24GClaims4,325

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Maryland

Rank by total paid#26 of 72

Median peer was paid$122K

This provider vs. median2.7×

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 CARTER, CATHY controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more

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	691	$37K
2019	510	$32K
2020	609	$42K
2021	613	$46K
2022	843	$63K
2023	717	$73K
2024incomplete	342	$37K

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)	64%	2,282	1,952	$210K
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	33%	1,575	1,229	$108K
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	3.8%	468	360	$13K

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 officialCARTER, CATHY (BILLING AGENT)

Same official

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