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Advantage Ambulance INC
Advantage Ambulance INC was paid $7.42M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoADVANTAGE AMBULANCE INC
NATIONAL CITY, CA 91950
NATIONAL CITY, CA 91950
33aNPI1568864346assigned 09/23/2014
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$7.42M
24GClaims77,301
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in California
Rank by total paid#20 of 96
Median peer was paid$1.63M
This provider vs. median4.5×
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 | 4,725 | $432K | |
| 2019 | 4,788 | $443K | |
| 2020 | 5,585 | $477K | |
| 2021 | 6,997 | $527K | |
| 2022 | 9,418 | $781K | |
| 2023 | 22,604 | $1.88M | |
| 2024incomplete | 23,184 | $2.88M |
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) | 37% | 10,860 | 9,780 | $2.75M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 23% | 22,593 | 19,103 | $1.69M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 22% | 37,335 | 32,130 | $1.66M |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | 17% | 3,456 | 3,199 | $1.24M |
| A0999 | Unlisted ambulance service | <1% | 174 | 138 | $25K |
| A0420 | Ambulance waiting time (als or bls), one half (1/2) hour increments | <1% | 806 | 771 | $23K |
| 93041 | <1% | 1,165 | 1,151 | $16K | |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | <1% | 29 | 29 | $9K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 658 | 643 | $7K |
| A0424 | Extra ambulance attendant, ground (als or bls) or air (fixed or rotary winged); (requires medical review) | <1% | 225 | 223 | $4K |
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 officialHARTSOCK, RICK (PRESIDENT)