Houghton Lake Ambulance Service

Houghton Lake Ambulance Service was paid $605K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is A0425, Ground mileage, per statute mile — 74% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHOUGHTON LAKE AMBULANCE SERVICE
HOUGHTON LAKE, MI 48629

33aNPI1306848783assigned 08/15/2005

33bProvider typeAmbulance

28Total paid$605K

24GClaims2,855

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Ambulance providers in Michigan

Rank by total paid#34 of 84

Median peer was paid$399K

This provider vs. median1.5×

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	386	$69K
2019	406	$70K
2020	380	$65K
2021	505	$78K
2022	549	$148K
2023	392	$109K
2024incomplete	237	$67K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	74%	2,194	1,943	$450K
A0427	Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency)	25%	632	591	$149K
A0426	Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1)	<1%	14	12	$3K
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	<1%	15	12	$3K

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 officialBLESSING, SHEILA (BILLING MANAGER)