Transport
Meds-1 Ambulance Service INC
Meds-1 Ambulance Service INC was paid $2.84M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is A0425, Ground mileage, per statute mile — 44% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMEDS-1 AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
GRAND RAPIDS, MN 55744
GRAND RAPIDS, MN 55744
33aNPI1265884456assigned 07/12/2016
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$2.84M
24GClaims15,974
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Minnesota
Rank by total paid#8 of 48
Median peer was paid$235K
This provider vs. median12×
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 | 2,048 | $136K | |
| 2019 | 2,140 | $411K | |
| 2020 | 1,950 | $402K | |
| 2021 | 1,935 | $446K | |
| 2022 | 2,668 | $545K | |
| 2023 | 3,667 | $636K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,566 | $261K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 44% | 9,615 | 7,122 | $1.26M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 37% | 3,434 | 2,982 | $1.04M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 15% | 1,540 | 1,350 | $418K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 2.4% | 447 | 355 | $67K |
| A0998 | Ambulance response and treatment, no transport | <1% | 134 | 110 | $28K |
| T1016 | Case management, each 15 minutes | <1% | 792 | 238 | $18K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | <1% | 12 | 12 | $8K |
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 officialDUCHARME, JAMES (OWNER / PRESIDENT)