Hickory Nut Gorge Volunteer Emergency Medical Services & Rescue

Hickory Nut Gorge Volunteer Emergency Medical Services & Rescue was paid $38K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2021, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is A0425, Ground mileage, per statute mile — 56% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHICKORY NUT GORGE VOLUNTEER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES & RESCUE
LAKE LURE, NC 28746

33aNPI1548228380assigned 05/02/2006

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$38K

24GClaims1,215

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2021

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in North Carolina

Rank by total paid#98 of 140

Median peer was paid$330K

This provider vs. median0.1×

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	519	$14K
2019	367	$14K
2020	264	$6K
2021	65	$4K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	56%	651	543	$22K
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	30%	349	329	$11K
A0428	Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls)	14%	167	138	$5K
A0888	Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility)	0%	48	41	$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 officialHAMRICK, EDWARD (ASSISTANT CHIEF)