Paul Hester & Wanda Hester PTR

Paul Hester & Wanda Hester PTR was paid $484K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jun 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 75% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoPAUL HESTER & WANDA HESTER PTR
MARKS, MS 38646

33aNPI1588757900assigned 09/30/2006

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$484K

24GClaims6,801

24DCodes billed3

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jun 2022

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Mississippi

Rank by total paid#16 of 22

Median peer was paid$2.32M

This provider vs. median0.2×

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	1,999	$140K
2019	1,553	$106K
2020	1,750	$96K
2021	953	$86K
2022	546	$56K

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)	75%	2,136	1,646	$364K
A0428	Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls)	25%	1,475	461	$119K
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	<1%	3,190	1,079	$451.66

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 officialHESTER, PAUL (DIRECTOR)