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Buncombe County Rescue Squad, INC
Buncombe County Rescue Squad, INC was paid $116K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2021, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 60% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBUNCOMBE COUNTY RESCUE SQUAD, INC
ASHEVILLE, NC 28806
ASHEVILLE, NC 28806
33aNPI1548221252assigned 03/31/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$116K
24GClaims5,375
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2021
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#38 of 64
Median peer was paid$229K
This provider vs. median0.5×
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 | 1,925 | $37K | |
| 2019 | 1,729 | $32K | |
| 2020 | 1,150 | $31K | |
| 2021 | 571 | $15K |
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) | 60% | 1,052 | 976 | $70K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 14% | 413 | 368 | $17K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 13% | 916 | 869 | $16K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 12% | 1,664 | 1,530 | $14K |
| A0888 | Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility) | <1% | 916 | 830 | $5.79 |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 0% | 104 | 91 | $0.00 |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | 0% | 310 | 217 | $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 officialRICE, BART (CHIEF)