Metro Ambulance Service Rural INC
Metro Ambulance Service Rural INC was paid $16.54M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 54% of everything it billed.
NATCHEZ, MS 39120
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Mississippi
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 57,020 | $2.83M | |
| 2019 | 9,652 | $582K | |
| 2020 | 6,832 | $540K | |
| 2021 | 5,710 | $572K | |
| 2022 | 45,278 | $2.74M | |
| 2023 | 52,541 | $4.52M | |
| 2024incomplete | 31,022 | $4.76M |
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) | 54% | 38,863 | 28,030 | $8.95M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 23% | 75,130 | 42,610 | $3.80M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 14% | 16,873 | 12,482 | $2.37M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 4.7% | 21,925 | 8,471 | $775K |
| A0394 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; iv drug therapy | 1.3% | 10,135 | 7,429 | $216K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 3,957 | 2,904 | $162K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | <1% | 14,998 | 8,182 | $101K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | <1% | 11,155 | 6,862 | $81K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | <1% | 1,792 | 1,188 | $47K |
| A0433 | Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2) | <1% | 95 | 82 | $41K |
| A0396 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; esophageal intubation | <1% | 10,466 | 5,590 | $418.54 |
| A0999 | Unlisted ambulance service | <1% | 889 | 327 | $31.63 |
4 more codes
| J3490 | Unclassified drugs | 0% | 369 | $0.00 |
| A0888 | Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility) | 0% | 598 | $0.00 |
| A0392 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; defibrillation (to be used only in jurisdictions where defibrillation cannot be performed in bls ambulances) | 0% | 606 | $0.00 |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | 0% | 204 | $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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.