Transport
City of Portsmouth
City of Portsmouth was paid $3.67M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 56% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF PORTSMOUTH
PORTSMOUTH, VA 23704
PORTSMOUTH, VA 23704
33aNPI1528022571assigned 04/14/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$3.67M
24GClaims78,870
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Virginia
Rank by total paid#10 of 109
Median peer was paid$366K
This provider vs. median10×
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 | 8,022 | $266K | |
| 2019 | 12,669 | $543K | |
| 2020 | 11,089 | $563K | |
| 2021 | 11,958 | $576K | |
| 2022 | 12,298 | $607K | |
| 2023 | 12,738 | $642K | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,096 | $468K |
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) | 56% | 23,255 | 17,125 | $2.06M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 38% | 14,009 | 11,279 | $1.38M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 5.8% | 37,513 | 27,168 | $212K |
| A0998 | Ambulance response and treatment, no transport | <1% | 3,209 | 2,732 | $5K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | <1% | 822 | 703 | $489.62 |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 62 | 54 | $2.00 |
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 officialWHITEHEAD, NEWELL (FIRE CHIEF)