Transport
Buckeye Valley Rural Volunteer Fire District
Buckeye Valley Rural Volunteer Fire District was paid $15.41M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 43% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUCKEYE VALLEY RURAL VOLUNTEER FIRE DISTRICT
BUCKEYE, AZ 85326
BUCKEYE, AZ 85326
33aNPI1437136736assigned 12/28/2005
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$15.41M
24GClaims38,143
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#10 of 36
Median peer was paid$4.85M
This provider vs. median3.2×
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 | 5,511 | $1.77M | |
| 2019 | 5,199 | $1.83M | |
| 2020 | 5,274 | $1.94M | |
| 2021 | 5,996 | $2.21M | |
| 2022 | 6,159 | $2.41M | |
| 2023 | 5,647 | $2.79M | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,357 | $2.46M |
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) | 43% | 10,485 | 9,313 | $6.70M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 31% | 7,186 | 6,467 | $4.73M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 20% | 19,343 | 16,668 | $3.02M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 3.5% | 620 | 604 | $532K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 2.8% | 509 | 490 | $424K |
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 officialELLS, NICHOLAS (DEPUTY CHIEF)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| North County Fire & Medical District | Sun City West, AZ | $2.97M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.