North Palos Fire Protection District

North Palos Fire Protection District was paid $5.36M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 50% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoNORTH PALOS FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT
PALOS HILLS, IL 60465

33aNPI1538271192assigned 08/31/2006

33bProvider typeAmbulance

28Total paid$5.36M

24GClaims14,995

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Ambulance providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#17 of 137

Median peer was paid$601K

This provider vs. median8.9×

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	2,146	$165K
2019	2,230	$263K
2020	2,882	$728K
2021	2,262	$1.12M
2022	2,030	$1.06M
2023	2,076	$1.21M
2024incomplete	1,369	$820K

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)	50%	3,645	2,925	$2.69M
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	47%	3,761	2,902	$2.54M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	2.5%	7,589	5,711	$134K

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 officialRUSSELL, DANIEL (FIRE CHIEF)