The City of Union City EMS

The City of Union City EMS was paid $1.08M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 86% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTHE CITY OF UNION CITY EMS
UNION CITY, NJ 07087

33aNPI1891972592assigned 01/24/2008

33bProvider typeAmbulance

28Total paid$1.08M

24GClaims34,464

24DCodes billed4

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Ambulance providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#10 of 81

Median peer was paid$90K

This provider vs. median12×

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	5,132	$136K
2019	4,842	$118K
2020	3,746	$85K
2021	4,382	$100K
2022	5,731	$201K
2023	6,154	$231K
2024incomplete	4,477	$208K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	86%	16,532	13,307	$932K
A0998	Ambulance response and treatment, no transport	7.2%	1,260	1,127	$78K
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	6.3%	16,473	13,259	$68K
A0422	Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation	<1%	199	171	$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 officialZUCCA, TAMMY (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER)