Transport
Sun City Fire District
Sun City Fire District was paid $3.11M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 93% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSUN CITY FIRE DISTRICT
SUN CITY, AZ 85373
SUN CITY, AZ 85373
33aNPI1821456575assigned 02/09/2016
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$3.11M
24GClaims17,435
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Arizona
Rank by total paid#23 of 36
Median peer was paid$4.85M
This provider vs. median0.6×
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.
Single-Code Concentration93% of spending on code A0427 with only 3 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | 2,155 | $273K | |
| 2019 | 2,246 | $356K | |
| 2020 | 2,311 | $402K | |
| 2021 | 2,698 | $474K | |
| 2022 | 2,798 | $496K | |
| 2023 | 2,896 | $568K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,331 | $542K |
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) | 93% | 8,371 | 7,219 | $2.89M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 5.2% | 8,918 | 7,646 | $162K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 1.8% | 146 | 139 | $57K |
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 officialSCHMITZ, ROBERT (CHIEF)