Puckett Emergency Medical Services, LLC
Puckett Emergency Medical Services, LLC was paid $3.15M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 61% of everything it billed.
EAST RIDGE, TN 37412
Next to other Ambulance providers in Tennessee
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 | 12,912 | $272K | |
| 2019 | 11,005 | $262K | |
| 2020 | 11,769 | $635K | |
| 2021 | 11,877 | $644K | |
| 2022 | 10,134 | $474K | |
| 2023 | 9,379 | $509K | |
| 2024incomplete | 9,332 | $357K |
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) | 61% | 15,772 | 11,234 | $1.93M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 21% | 37,821 | 25,726 | $663K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 10% | 18,220 | 13,572 | $321K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 5.1% | 1,469 | 1,115 | $160K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | 1.6% | 308 | 219 | $50K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | <1% | 1,689 | 1,429 | $20K |
| A0380 | Bls mileage (per mile) | <1% | 804 | 422 | $7K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | <1% | 263 | 173 | $90.03 |
| A0888 | Noncovered ambulance mileage, per mile (e.g., for miles traveled beyond closest appropriate facility) | 0% | 62 | 55 | $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
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Maricopa Ambulance, LLC | Phoenix, AZ | $119.39M |
| Lifecare Medical Transports, LLC | Fredericksburg, VA | $35.29M |
| Shoals Ambulance LLC | Knoxville, TN | $17.42M |
| Seals Ambulance Service, INC. | Indianapolis, IN | $10.66M |
| Medshore Ambulance Service, LLC | Anderson, SC | $6.98M |
| Priority Ambulance Yavapai LLC | Prescott Valley, AZ | $6.13M |
| Utica Ambulance Service, INC. | Utica, NY | $5.66M |
| First Call Ambulance LLC | Old Hickory, TN | $5.00M |
| Trans Am Ambulance Services, INC. | Olean, NY | $4.03M |
| Shoals Ambulance LLC | Bessemer, AL | $2.46M |
| Priority Ambulance New York LLC | Amsterdam, NY | $1.66M |
| Frontier Ambulance LLC | Riverton, WY | $785K |
| Puckett Emergency Medical Services, LLC | Austell, GA | $8K |
| Central Emergency Medical Services LLC | Roswell, GA | $103.47 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.