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Desert Ambulance Service INC
Desert Ambulance Service INC was paid $3.56M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 69% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDESERT AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
BARSTOW, CA 92311
BARSTOW, CA 92311
33aNPI1487733663assigned 11/06/2006
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$3.56M
24GClaims46,852
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in California
Rank by total paid#64 of 177
Median peer was paid$1.79M
This provider vs. median2.0×
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 | 7,229 | $543K | |
| 2019 | 7,178 | $594K | |
| 2020 | 6,184 | $530K | |
| 2021 | 6,161 | $536K | |
| 2022 | 6,323 | $415K | |
| 2023 | 7,330 | $484K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,447 | $462K |
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) | 69% | 16,622 | 13,694 | $2.48M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 21% | 19,535 | 16,051 | $750K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 5.0% | 1,748 | 1,620 | $180K |
| 93041 | 2.2% | 5,315 | 4,868 | $79K | |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 1.4% | 491 | 453 | $50K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 2,212 | 1,946 | $21K |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | <1% | 916 | 852 | $7K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | <1% | 13 | 12 | $1K |
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 officialMUNCY, ELBERT (C.E.O.)