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NPI 1740782200 · Winston Salem, NC · Air Ambulance
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Wake Air Care LLC is a air ambulance provider located in Winston Salem, North Carolina. This profile covers 2 Medicare and 2 Medicaid CPT/HCPCS procedure codes, with claims volume, average reimbursement, and total revenue by code, benchmarked against other providers billing the same services.
Provider details (source: NPPES NPI Registry)
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Entity Type | Organization |
| Organization | Wake Air Care LLC |
| Address | Medical Center Blvd |
| City | Winston Salem |
| State | NC |
| ZIP | 27157 |
| Taxonomy | Air Ambulance |
| NPI Enumerated | March 1, 2018 |
Lifetime revenue by payer source (source: CMS Medicare & Medicaid claims data)
| Payer Source | Total Paid |
|---|---|
| Medicare | $2.5M |
| Medicaid | $2.4M |
WAKE AIR CARE LLC operates as an air ambulance service focused on rotary-wing transports, as reflected by its dominant CPT/HCPCS codes A0431 (ambulance service, conventional air services, transport, one way (rotary wing)) and A0436 (rotary wing air mileage, per statute mile). The code mix — transport plus mileage — indicates core operations are patient transports by helicopter where mileage-based charging is a routine component of claims.
The provider posts nearly equal lifetime scale across public payers with Total Medicare revenue of $2.5M and Total Medicaid revenue of $2.4M, so it is not single-payer dependent but has a balanced Medicare/Medicaid footprint. Analysts should treat payer-specific reimbursement and utilization patterns as material to the business given the comparable revenue pools.
Revenue concentration is extreme by service line: precomputed data show the top 3 Medicare codes account for 100.0% of this provider's total Medicare revenue, and the top 3 Medicaid codes account for 100.0% of this provider's total Medicaid revenue. Within those aggregates, A0431 alone drives 74.3% of Medicare revenue and 56.3% of Medicaid revenue while A0436 supplies the remaining 25.7% of Medicare revenue and 43.7% of Medicaid revenue.
Medicare competitive standing for the primary rotary-wing codes is nationally notable by rank: A0431 ranks #24 of 348 and A0436 ranks #26 of 348, both at the 93th percentile. Despite those high ranks, peer benchmarking labels the volumes for these codes as "typical, unremarkable volume for this code," suggesting the provider is visible on national lists but not an outlier in utilization patterns for rotary-wing services.
In-state (Medicaid) competitive positioning shows a stronger local presence: both A0431 and A0436 rank #3 of 14 providers in-state and sit at the 85th percentile. That rank positions WAKE AIR CARE LLC as one of the larger rotary-wing Medicaid billers in North Carolina, though the peer description again characterizes these volumes as "typical, unremarkable volume for this code."
Claims and reimbursement patterns differ sharply between payers and between code types. For Medicare, A0431 appears as 427 claims at $4430 avg paid/claim for $1.9M revenue while A0436 is 21.8K claims at $30 avg paid/claim for $655.4K revenue, showing a high per-transport payment alongside high-frequency, low-unit-value mileage billing; for Medicaid both A0431 and A0436 report 3.5K claims each with avg paid/claim $386 and $299 respectively (A0431 = $1.3M, A0436 = $1.0M), highlighting substantial per-claim payment differences across payers that will affect margin modeling.
The NPI has been enumerated since 2018-03-01 (~8 years ago), providing multiple years of claims history to evaluate operational stability and trends; this tenure supports trend analysis on utilization, payer mix shifts, and the impact of reimbursement changes on a focused rotary-wing business.
Strategic implication: because top codes (A0431/A0436) comprise 100.0% of reported revenue on both Medicare and Medicaid, the provider's financial performance is highly sensitive to changes in rotary-wing transport demand and to payer-specific changes in transport and mileage reimbursement. Any payer policy shifts or utilization changes affecting A0431 or A0436 would materially impact both the $2.5M Medicare and $2.4M Medicaid revenue streams.
Medicare revenue breakdown by CPT/HCPCS procedure code.
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How this provider's Medicare billing volume and revenue compare to other providers nationally and within its state, across 2 CPT/HCPCS codes.
Medicaid revenue breakdown by year and by CPT/HCPCS procedure code, including monthly billing trends and the top codes driving revenue.
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Every CPT/HCPCS code this provider has billed to Medicaid, with claims volume, average payment, and total revenue.
How this provider's Medicaid billing volume and revenue compare to other North Carolina providers billing the same CPT/HCPCS codes.
Full comparison — all codes billed, vs. North Carolina median
Other providers in the same ZIP code as Wake Air Care LLC, ranked by combined Medicare and Medicaid revenue.
| Provider | State | Taxonomy | Medicare Revenue | Medicaid Revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | NC | Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center | $0 | $188.2M |
| North Carolina Baptist Hospital | NC | General Acute Care Hospital | $0 | $138.4M |
| Vishak John | NC | Ophthalmology Physician | $4.3M | $0 |
| Thomas Williamson | NC | Hematology & Oncology Physician | $2.4M | $0 |
| Omar Sangueza | NC | Dermatopathology (Pathology) Physician | $810.1K | $0 |
| Jennifer Stanislaus | NC | Anesthesiology Physician | $557.1K | $0 |
| Thomas Sullivan | NC | Diagnostic Radiology Physician | $18.9K | $393.7K |
| Rajiv Shah | NC | Ophthalmology Physician | $328.3K | $0 |
| Bradley Unruh | NC | Diagnostic Radiology Physician | $279.6K | $0 |
| Jordan Allem | NC | Cardiovascular Disease Physician | $257.3K | $0 |
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