City of Chicago
City of Chicago was paid $1.23B by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 71% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF CHICAGO
CHICAGO, IL 60602
CHICAGO, IL 60602
33aNPI1376554592assigned 08/11/2006
33bProvider typeParamedic
28Total paid$1.23B
24GClaims1,593,649
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Paramedic providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#1 of 5
Median peer was paid$389K
This provider vs. median3,152×
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 | 267,879 | $18.36M | |
| 2019 | 187,317 | $23.03M | |
| 2020 | 268,487 | $185.62M | |
| 2021 | 213,293 | $239.86M | |
| 2022 | 222,128 | $259.44M | |
| 2023 | 240,907 | $265.62M | |
| 2024incomplete | 193,638 | $233.12M |
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) | 71% | 538,903 | 414,988 | $868.37M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 28% | 198,597 | 158,911 | $345.45M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | <1% | 769,821 | 557,854 | $8.97M |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 80,274 | 56,139 | $1.16M |
| A0433 | Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2) | <1% | 6,054 | 5,488 | $1.09M |
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 officialFLORES, JOEL (DEPUTY DIRECTOR)
Parent organizationCITY OF CHICAGO