Transport
Medical Express Ambulance Service, INC
Medical Express Ambulance Service, INC was paid $22.35M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is A0428, Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) — 40% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMEDICAL EXPRESS AMBULANCE SERVICE, INC
SKOKIE, IL 60077
SKOKIE, IL 60077
33aNPI1851343537assigned 05/17/2006
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$22.35M
24GClaims290,877
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Illinois
Rank by total paid#9 of 289
Median peer was paid$1.16M
This provider vs. median19×
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 | 41,771 | $3.05M | |
| 2019 | 45,334 | $3.93M | |
| 2020 | 45,041 | $3.07M | |
| 2021 | 47,356 | $3.56M | |
| 2022 | 38,741 | $2.49M | |
| 2023 | 36,994 | $2.48M | |
| 2024incomplete | 35,640 | $3.78M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 40% | 68,534 | 48,374 | $8.97M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 22% | 123,446 | 91,147 | $4.85M |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | 15% | 13,568 | 10,917 | $3.40M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 8.6% | 8,014 | 6,864 | $1.92M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 6.5% | 7,653 | 6,778 | $1.46M |
| A0426 | Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) | 2.7% | 2,714 | 2,016 | $612K |
| A0130 | Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van | 2.4% | 24,194 | 18,251 | $528K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | 1.7% | 22,790 | 17,022 | $387K |
| A0120 | Non-emergency transportation: mini-bus, mountain area transports, or other transportation systems | <1% | 17,210 | 13,193 | $210K |
| T2001 | Non-emergency transportation; patient attendant/escort | <1% | 2,067 | 1,308 | $12K |
| 93041 | <1% | 687 | 496 | $100.16 |
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 officialRUBINSON, LAUREN (PRESIDENT & CEO)