Transport
City of Palo Alto
City of Palo Alto was paid $819K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 62% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF PALO ALTO
PALO ALTO, CA 94301
PALO ALTO, CA 94301
33aNPI1851458764assigned 01/02/2007
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$819K
24GClaims7,089
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in California
Rank by total paid#56 of 96
Median peer was paid$1.63M
This provider vs. median0.5×
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 | 821 | $36K | |
| 2019 | 948 | $77K | |
| 2020 | 1,158 | $92K | |
| 2021 | 1,364 | $122K | |
| 2022 | 1,345 | $106K | |
| 2023 | 1,056 | $323K | |
| 2024incomplete | 397 | $62K |
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) | 62% | 2,553 | 2,221 | $505K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 36% | 951 | 842 | $296K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 2.2% | 3,585 | 3,077 | $18K |
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 officialDUREN, JAMES (EMS CHIEF)