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Independent Fire Company No. 1 of Charles Town West Virginia
Independent Fire Company No. 1 of Charles Town West Virginia was paid $608K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2023, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 40% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoINDEPENDENT FIRE COMPANY NO. 1 OF CHARLES TOWN WEST VIRGINIA
RANSON, WV 25438
RANSON, WV 25438
33aNPI1295959799assigned 04/13/2007
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$608K
24GClaims4,797
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in West Virginia
Rank by total paid#15 of 39
Median peer was paid$270K
This provider vs. median2.3×
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 | 793 | $142K | |
| 2019 | 631 | $118K | |
| 2020 | 919 | $94K | |
| 2021 | 1,149 | $114K | |
| 2022 | 1,152 | $120K | |
| 2023 | 153 | $21K |
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) | 40% | 1,096 | 882 | $241K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 36% | 1,169 | 923 | $220K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 24% | 2,532 | 1,925 | $148K |
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 officialWHEELER, MIKE (PROVIDER RELATIONS SPECIALIST)
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.