Transport
City of Pittsburgh
City of Pittsburgh was paid $24.51M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 55% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCITY OF PITTSBURGH
PITTSBURGH, PA 15232
PITTSBURGH, PA 15232
33aNPI1992773790assigned 03/09/2006
33bProvider typeAmbulance
28Total paid$24.51M
24GClaims121,612
24DCodes billed8
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ambulance providers in Pennsylvania
Rank by total paid#2 of 121
Median peer was paid$173K
This provider vs. median141×
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 | 1,559 | $124K | |
| 2019 | 1,338 | $149K | |
| 2020 | 6,263 | $590K | |
| 2021 | 21,907 | $4.30M | |
| 2022 | 26,783 | $5.35M | |
| 2023 | 29,903 | $6.92M | |
| 2024incomplete | 33,859 | $7.08M |
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) | 55% | 44,281 | 37,004 | $13.56M |
| A0427 | Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) | 41% | 30,161 | 27,027 | $9.99M |
| A0425 | Ground mileage, per statute mile | 2.0% | 29,411 | 24,730 | $484K |
| A0998 | Ambulance response and treatment, no transport | 1.1% | 2,915 | 2,804 | $276K |
| A0433 | Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2) | <1% | 391 | 376 | $196K |
| A0392 | Als specialized service disposable supplies; defibrillation (to be used only in jurisdictions where defibrillation cannot be performed in bls ambulances) | <1% | 9,334 | 8,586 | $6K |
| A0422 | Ambulance (als or bls) oxygen and oxygen supplies, life sustaining situation | <1% | 4,061 | 3,746 | $883.02 |
| A0398 | Als routine disposable supplies | <1% | 1,058 | 999 | $100.94 |
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 officialBOCIAN, MARK (CHIEF)