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Lone Star Ambulance, INC
Lone Star Ambulance, INC was paid $2.64M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 10 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 41% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLONE STAR AMBULANCE, INC
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78201
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78201
33aNPI1942201272assigned 08/09/2005
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$2.64M
24GClaims48,179
24DCodes billed10
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#19 of 184
Median peer was paid$197K
This provider vs. median13×
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 | 6,174 | $206K | |
| 2019 | 4,961 | $176K | |
| 2020 | 4,827 | $198K | |
| 2021 | 4,894 | $264K | |
| 2022 | 4,578 | $298K | |
| 2023 | 10,534 | $787K | |
| 2024incomplete | 12,211 | $711K |
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) | 41% | 6,886 | 6,070 | $1.09M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 20% | 20,666 | 14,270 | $533K |
| A0429 | Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) | 18% | 3,233 | 2,914 | $477K |
| A0428 | Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) | 17% | 9,836 | 6,250 | $450K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | 1.9% | 3,391 | 2,879 | $50K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 1.3% | 2,649 | 2,213 | $35K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 220 | 182 | $3K |
| 93041 | <1% | 544 | 470 | $81.47 | |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | <1% | 165 | 139 | $24.15 |
| A0394 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; iv drug therapy | 0% | 589 | 476 | $0.00 |
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 officialCAUTHEN, VALERIE (DIRECTOR)