Transport
City of Mercedes
City of Mercedes was paid $332K by Medicaid between May 2019 and Oct 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF MERCEDES
MERCEDES, TX 78570
MERCEDES, TX 78570
33aNPI1902368871assigned 04/01/2019
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$332K
24GClaims5,092
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthMay 2019 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#75 of 184
Median peer was paid$197K
This provider vs. median1.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 311 | $17K | |
| 2020 | 550 | $27K | |
| 2021 | 1,525 | $101K | |
| 2022 | 1,336 | $95K | |
| 2023 | 1,140 | $79K | |
| 2024incomplete | 230 | $14K |
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) | 57% | 1,146 | 1,021 | $188K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 22% | 494 | 431 | $74K |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 16% | 2,092 | 1,781 | $52K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | 2.4% | 702 | 586 | $8K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 1.6% | 383 | 322 | $5K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | 1.3% | 275 | 233 | $4K |
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 officialMARTINEZ, ARMANDO (ADMINISTRATOR OF RECORD)