Transport
South Medical Response
South Medical Response was paid $144K by Medicaid between Jun 2023 and Oct 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 77% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUTH MEDICAL RESPONSE
MAYAGUEZ, PR 00680
MAYAGUEZ, PR 00680
33aNPI1700520202assigned 04/21/2022
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$144K
24GClaims1,104
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJun 2023 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#21 of 51
Median peer was paid$103K
This provider vs. median1.4×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 333 | $40K | |
| 2024incomplete | 771 | $104K |
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) | 77% | 408 | 265 | $111K |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 14% | 60 | 41 | $20K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 9.7% | 636 | 412 | $14K |
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 officialCRUZ, MANUEL (PRESIDENT)