Riceville Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated

Riceville Volunteer Fire Department Incorporated was paid $42K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jul 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 98% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoRICEVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INCORPORATED
ASHEVILLE, NC 28805

33aNPI1326331208assigned 05/25/2011

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$42K

24GClaims1,507

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jul 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#97 of 140

Median peer was paid$330K

This provider vs. median0.1×

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	495	$13K
2019	457	$12K
2020	241	$6K
2021	113	$5K
2022	89	$2K
2023	43	$1K
2024incomplete	69	$3K

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)	98%	777	699	$41K
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	2.1%	493	444	$897.89
A0888	Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility)	0%	237	204	$0.00

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 officialLEWS, THADDEUS (CHIEF)