Quad City Helicopter Emergency Medical Service

Quad City Helicopter Emergency Medical Service was paid $429K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is A0431, Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing) — 60% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoQUAD CITY HELICOPTER EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE
COLONA, IL 61241

33aNPI1891872552assigned 11/01/2006

33bProvider typeAir Ambulance

28Total paid$429K

24GClaims1,308

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Air Ambulance providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#7 of 15

Median peer was paid$344K

This provider vs. median1.2×

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.

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	529	$135K
2019	293	$102K
2020	52	$16K
2021	118	$40K
2022	202	$84K
2023	86	$34K
2024incomplete	28	$18K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0431	Ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing)	60%	745	580	$259K
A0436	Rotary wing air mileage, per statute mile	40%	563	487	$170K

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

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