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Who bills A0427?

A0427 is the HCPCS code for: Ambulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency). In 2024, 6,857 providers billed A0427 3,690,907 times, with an estimated $1.5B paid by Medicare.

No set rate
See the fee status below
6,857
Providers billing it (2024)
3,690,907
Services billed
$1.5B
Est. Medicare paid
The fee

What does Medicare pay for A0427?

On the 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule, A0427 is priced outside the physician fee schedule. There is no single national dollar rate to quote — and anyone showing you $0.00 for it is misreading the file.

Fee statusPriced outside the physician fee schedule
Fee schedule2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

What Medicare actually paid per service in 2024, on average: $412.44 (observed payment across all settings and modifiers — not a fee-schedule rate).

The list

Who bills A0427 the most.

The top 5 billers nationally, ranked by 2024 Medicare service volume.

#ProviderSpecialtyLocationServicesEst. Medicare paid
1Acadian Ambulance Service, Inc.Ambulance Service ProviderLafayette, LA43,381$16.4M
2Falck Mobile Health CorpAmbulance Service ProviderOrange, CA27,872$12.9M
3City Of Los AngelesAmbulance Service ProviderLos Angeles, CA27,341$12.7M
4County Of Pinellas Board Of County CommissionersAmbulance Service ProviderLargo, FL27,045$10.7M
5City Of ChicagoAmbulance Service ProviderChicago, IL24,617$10.2M

6,852 more providers billed A0427 in 2024. The full ranked list — filtered to your exact territory, with phone numbers and year-over-year history — is one search in Prospect 811.

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The breakdown

Where A0427 gets billed.

Top states by volume

California449,764 services
Florida352,509 services
Texas288,804 services
Illinois183,846 services
North Carolina136,666 services
Pennsylvania135,244 services
Ohio132,961 services
Massachusetts129,314 services

About this code

CMS descriptionAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency)
Code typeHCPCS Level II
Providers billing it (2024)6,857
Services billed (2024)3,690,907
Avg. Medicare payment per service (2024)$412.44
Where these numbers come from. Rates are CMS's own public fee-schedule files — the Physician Fee Schedule, Clinical Laboratory Fee Schedule, ASP drug pricing, DMEPOS, and the OPPS/ASC addenda — each labeled with its file year on this page; national amounts are shown before geographic adjustment. Codes with no separate rate render the fee schedule's own status in words, never a fake $0. Utilization comes from CMS's public Medicare Provider Utilization & Payment data for 2024, the most recent year released. It covers traditional Medicare fee-for-service only (no commercial insurance, no Medicare Advantage), and CMS suppresses any provider-and-code line with fewer than 11 beneficiaries before publishing, so low-volume billers don't appear at all. "Est. Medicare paid" is each billing line's average Medicare payment times its service count, summed — actual per-claim payment varies by setting and modifiers. For drug and supply codes, a "service" is a billed unit (a milligram, a milliliter, a square centimeter), not a patient visit. Code descriptions are CMS's own, from the utilization files. Prospect 811 organizes public data; it doesn't add to or alter it. Not affiliated with or endorsed by CMS. Full detail on the data page.

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