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Action Ambulance Service INC
Action Ambulance Service INC was paid $13.70M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 38% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoACTION AMBULANCE SERVICE INC
WILMINGTON, MA 01887
WILMINGTON, MA 01887
33aNPI1902901804assigned 09/14/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$13.70M
24GClaims164,632
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Massachusetts
Rank by total paid#3 of 120
Median peer was paid$282K
This provider vs. median49×
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 | 31,070 | $2.18M | |
| 2019 | 29,907 | $2.15M | |
| 2020 | 25,389 | $2.24M | |
| 2021 | 28,562 | $2.23M | |
| 2022 | 25,143 | $2.13M | |
| 2023 | 12,882 | $1.27M | |
| 2024incomplete | 11,679 | $1.49M |
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) | 38% | 30,658 | 27,205 | $5.18M |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 35% | 25,173 | 22,127 | $4.82M |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 11% | 17,988 | 15,064 | $1.56M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 9.1% | 76,000 | 61,204 | $1.24M |
| A0434 | Specialty care transport (sct) | 4.2% | 1,909 | 1,837 | $571K |
| A0130 | Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van | 1.4% | 6,352 | 3,456 | $191K |
| S0215 | Non-emergency transportation; mileage, per mile | <1% | 6,235 | 3,363 | $80K |
| A0433 | Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2) | <1% | 187 | 181 | $46K |
| 0011A | <1% | 61 | 61 | $3K | |
| 0012A | <1% | 41 | 41 | $2K | |
| A0390 | Als mileage (per mile) | <1% | 28 | 26 | $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 officialNOWAK, DONNA (MANAGER, PATIENT ACCOUNTS)