Transport
City of Houston
City of Houston was paid $37.75M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 61% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF HOUSTON
HOUSTON, TX 77002
HOUSTON, TX 77002
33aNPI1447375282assigned 03/20/2007
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$37.75M
24GClaims373,296
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#3 of 184
Median peer was paid$197K
This provider vs. median192×
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 | 25,843 | $1.69M | |
| 2019 | 27,536 | $1.96M | |
| 2020 | 32,178 | $2.69M | |
| 2021 | 72,201 | $7.85M | |
| 2022 | 76,231 | $8.64M | |
| 2023 | 76,889 | $8.67M | |
| 2024incomplete | 62,418 | $6.25M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 61% | 130,846 | 110,438 | $23.02M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 27% | 54,193 | 47,932 | $10.14M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 12% | 185,701 | 153,352 | $4.38M |
| A0433 | Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2) | <1% | 708 | 677 | $180K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | <1% | 1,055 | 929 | $19K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 737 | 613 | $9K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | <1% | 27 | 25 | $188.13 |
| A0998 | Ambulance response and treatment, no transport | 0% | 29 | 26 | $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 officialMCHENRY, RACHELLE (FINANCIAL ANALYST IV)