Polk County Local Government
Polk County Local Government was paid $165K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 56% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPOLK COUNTY LOCAL GOVERNMENT
COLUMBUS, NC 28722
COLUMBUS, NC 28722
33aNPI1811925100assigned 06/28/2006
33bProvider typeParamedic
28Total paid$165K
24GClaims6,366
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Paramedic providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#6 of 6
Median peer was paid$1.68M
This provider vs. median0.1×
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 | 338 | $7K | |
| 2019 | 437 | $9K | |
| 2020 | 131 | $3K | |
| 2021 | 2,202 | $21K | |
| 2022 | 2,468 | $54K | |
| 2023 | 261 | $16K | |
| 2024incomplete | 529 | $55K |
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) | 56% | 575 | 469 | $92K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 20% | 218 | 194 | $34K |
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | 12% | 3,983 | 3,983 | $19K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 8.8% | 1,399 | 1,125 | $15K |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 3.6% | 191 | 168 | $6K |
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 officialCOCHRAN, PENNY (SUPERVISOR)