Transport
City of Birmingham
City of Birmingham was paid $5.53M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 47% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF BIRMINGHAM
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35203
BIRMINGHAM, AL 35203
33aNPI1962487355assigned 12/08/2005
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$5.53M
24GClaims134,073
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Alabama
Rank by total paid#6 of 91
Median peer was paid$307K
This provider vs. median18×
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 | 13,623 | $437K | |
| 2019 | 15,373 | $489K | |
| 2020 | 18,420 | $802K | |
| 2021 | 20,727 | $950K | |
| 2022 | 24,725 | $1.04M | |
| 2023 | 23,790 | $1.06M | |
| 2024incomplete | 17,415 | $759K |
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) | 47% | 33,988 | 25,417 | $2.62M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 30% | 19,408 | 15,048 | $1.63M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 15% | 53,554 | 38,870 | $847K |
| A0382 | Bls routine disposable supplies | 7.4% | 23,249 | 17,716 | $410K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 2,323 | 1,968 | $25K |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | <1% | 1,183 | 970 | $44.80 |
| A0394 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; iv drug therapy | 0% | 353 | 301 | $0.00 |
| A0999 | Unlisted ambulance service | 0% | 15 | 13 | $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 officialSHARPE, EUGENE (SENIOR ACCOUNTANT)