Northwest Fire District

Northwest Fire District was paid $5.03M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 90% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNORTHWEST FIRE DISTRICT
TUCSON, AZ 85743

33aNPI1316331374assigned 03/26/2015

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$5.03M

24GClaims17,828

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Arizona

Rank by total paid#27 of 61

Median peer was paid$3.83M

This provider vs. median1.3×

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	2,487	$611K
2019	2,706	$670K
2020	2,300	$600K
2021	2,846	$734K
2022	2,896	$829K
2023	2,558	$858K
2024incomplete	2,035	$723K

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)	90%	8,534	7,325	$4.50M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	9.7%	9,251	7,908	$488K
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	<1%	43	40	$33K

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 officialDRAPER, SCOTT (DIVISION CHIEF)