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Bullhead City Fire Department
Bullhead City Fire Department was paid $10.88M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 63% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBULLHEAD CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ 86442
BULLHEAD CITY, AZ 86442
33aNPI1710071410assigned 10/03/2006
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$10.88M
24GClaims35,046
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#12 of 61
Median peer was paid$3.83M
This provider vs. median2.8×
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 | 4,677 | $1.14M | |
| 2019 | 4,546 | $1.19M | |
| 2020 | 4,707 | $1.22M | |
| 2021 | 5,246 | $1.51M | |
| 2022 | 5,905 | $1.91M | |
| 2023 | 5,002 | $1.79M | |
| 2024incomplete | 4,963 | $2.11M |
Box 24 · Service lines
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) | 63% | 11,677 | 10,150 | $6.87M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 21% | 4,278 | 3,804 | $2.32M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 8.5% | 17,719 | 13,987 | $928K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 4.8% | 1,069 | 930 | $526K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 2.2% | 303 | 295 | $240K |
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 officialSOUTHEY, RICK (FIRE CHIEF)