First Medical Equipment, INC.

First Medical Equipment, INC. was paid $622K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is T4523, Adult sized disposable incontinence product, brief/diaper, large, each — 81% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoFIRST MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, INC.
BURLINGTON, IA 52601

33aNPI1417950908assigned 05/27/2005

33bProvider typeDurable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies

28Total paid$622K

24GClaims5,889

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Durable Medical Equipment & Medical Supplies providers in Iowa

Rank by total paid#22 of 344

Median peer was paid$29K

This provider vs. median22×

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	689	$86K
2019	825	$89K
2020	757	$89K
2021	732	$82K
2022	674	$79K
2023	980	$96K
2024incomplete	1,232	$101K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
T4523	Adult sized disposable incontinence product, brief/diaper, large, each	81%	3,509	2,570	$506K
E1390	Oxygen concentrator, single delivery port, capable of delivering 85 percent or greater oxygen concentration at the prescribed flow rate	16%	1,425	1,146	$102K
E0601	Continuous positive airway pressure (cpap) device	1.1%	204	175	$7K
E0570	Nebulizer, with compressor	1.0%	556	520	$6K
A7038	Filter, disposable, used with positive airway pressure device	<1%	176	149	$745.81
A4927	Gloves, non-sterile, per 100	<1%	19	13	$194.13

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 officialADRIAN, BARBARA (PRESIDENT)