Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department INC

Ocean Pines Volunteer Fire Department INC was paid $22K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2023, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 100% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoOCEAN PINES VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC
BERLIN, MD 21811

33aNPI1881837136assigned 04/16/2009

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$22K

24GClaims240

24DCodes billed1

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2023

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Maryland

Rank by total paid#55 of 72

Median peer was paid$122K

This provider vs. median0.2×

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.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official CARTER, CATHY controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more

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	103	$9K
2019	13	$1K
2021	41	$3K
2022	41	$3K
2023	42	$5K

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)	100%	240	224	$22K

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 officialCARTER, CATHY (BILLING ADMINISTRATOR)

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