SMS Transportation

SMS Transportation was paid $4.60M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2023, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is A0130, Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van — 41% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSMS TRANSPORTATION
INDIO, CA 92201

33aNPI1629111398assigned 02/14/2007

33bProvider typeNon-emergency Medical Transport (VAN)

28Total paid$4.60M

24GClaims213,114

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Non-emergency Medical Transport (VAN) providers in California

Rank by total paid#67 of 348

Median peer was paid$846K

This provider vs. median5.4×

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	58,994	$1.26M
2019	57,020	$1.22M
2020	42,867	$903K
2021	30,882	$676K
2022	22,586	$530K
2023	765	$19K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0130	Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van	41%	67,711	4,454	$1.88M
A0380	Bls mileage (per mile)	31%	52,300	4,382	$1.40M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	19%	32,780	2,759	$874K
A0428	Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls)	5.8%	26,485	2,338	$267K
T2001	Non-emergency transportation; patient attendant/escort	3.8%	33,838	2,782	$173K

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 officialWILTZ, DANIELLE (CFO)