The Children's Hospital of Alabama
The Children's Hospital of Alabama was paid $2.73M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is A0431, Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing) — 46% of everything it billed.
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35233
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Alabama
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 744 | $187K | |
| 2019 | 1,016 | $233K | |
| 2020 | 1,032 | $297K | |
| 2021 | 1,392 | $583K | |
| 2022 | 1,170 | $518K | |
| 2023 | 1,499 | $520K | |
| 2024incomplete | 929 | $397K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0431 | Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing) | 46% | 1,685 | 1,580 | $1.27M |
| A0436 | Rotary wing air mileage, per statute mile | 33% | 1,686 | 1,581 | $889K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 14% | 1,110 | 998 | $370K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | 5.2% | 1,187 | 1,009 | $143K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | 1.0% | 2,060 | 1,902 | $28K |
| A0435 | Fixed wing air mileage, per statute mile | <1% | 27 | 27 | $25K |
| A0430 | Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (fixed wing) | <1% | 27 | 27 | $13K |
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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.