Transport
OIG excluded
Balboa Ambulance INC.
Balboa Ambulance INC. was paid $3.58M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2020, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is A0428, Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) — 63% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoBALBOA AMBULANCE INC.
SAN DIEGO, CA 92123
SAN DIEGO, CA 92123
33aNPI1871502146assigned 08/05/2006
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$3.58M
24GClaims51,938
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2020
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in California
Rank by total paid#63 of 177
Median peer was paid$1.79M
This provider vs. median2.0×
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.
OIG exclusionListed on the federal exclusion list (12/07/2021).
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 | 19,474 | $1.36M | |
| 2019 | 29,284 | $1.98M | |
| 2020 | 3,180 | $239K |
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) | 63% | 21,802 | 8,405 | $2.26M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 24% | 24,689 | 10,357 | $863K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 9.0% | 2,303 | 1,966 | $322K |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | 2.8% | 651 | 423 | $100K |
| A0380 | Bls mileage (per mile) | <1% | 983 | 384 | $17K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 1,001 | 640 | $9K |
| T2005 | Non-emergency transportation; stretcher van | <1% | 244 | 111 | $9K |
| T2001 | Non-emergency transportation; patient attendant/escort | <1% | 265 | 131 | $2K |
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 officialOLSON, JOHN (ADMINISTRATOR)