Emergency ambulance transport with advanced life support

Hospitals report these codes with terse, inconsistent chargemaster text. This plain-English title was written by an AI model from that text and has not been reviewed by a person, so it can be wrong. The prices on this page come straight from hospital filings and do not depend on it.

Model: claude-haiku-5-5
Provider: anthropic
API: message_batches
Reasoning effort: low
Max output tokens: 4096
Prompt version (hash): 444523875572
Generated: October 20, 2026

Original text from hospital filings

ALS EMERGENCY LEVEL 1

Payers reporting HCPCS A0427

Payer pricing summary

Low

$13

Average

$1.3k

Median

$1.2k

High

$5.8k

Payer rate distribution

Filter by billing methodology

Filter by billing class

#
1	Bcbs Mi facility · fee schedule · both · +3 other terms	1	$365	$365	—	—	42	$365 – $365
2	Caresource fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	17	$785	$776	$199	26%	2–20	$1 – $1.7k
3	Humana fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	101	$843	$1.0k	$1.1k	108%	1–10	$1 – $4.1k
4	Aetna facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +20 other terms	65	$540	$560	$216	39%	—	$266 – $1.7k
5	Blue Cross Blue Shield fee schedule · outpatient · +19 other terms	65	$819	$1.3k	$1.2k	94%	—	$1 – $7.9k
6	UnitedHealthcare facility · case rate · outpatient · +25 other terms	61	$285	$288	$25	9%	—	$237 – $430
7	Cigna fee schedule · outpatient · +18 other terms	41	$874	$3.3k	$532	16%	—	$526 – $3.5k
8	WellCare facility · case rate · outpatient · +13 other terms	32	$381	$342	$50	14%	—	$279 – $391
9	Baylor Scott White Health Plan facility · percent of total billed charges · outpatientfrom % of charges	26	$409	$333	$90	27%	—	$94 – $442
10	Anthem facility · case rate · outpatient · +15 other terms	22	$279	$383	$118	31%	—	$279 – $558
11	Ambetter facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	21	$878	$852	$138	16%	—	$561 – $1.1k
12	Molina facility · case rate · outpatient · +14 other terms	19	$302	$298	$23	8%	—	$230 – $313
13	Oscar facility · fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	18	$822	$853	$131	15%	—	$712 – $1.0k
14	MultiPlan fee schedule · outpatient · +13 other terms	17	$11.3k	$9.2k	$4.1k	44%	—	$234 – $11.3k
15	Regence facility · case rate · outpatient · +9 other terms	16	$296	$291	$16	5%	—	$237 – $302
16	Wellmark fee schedule · outpatient · +7 other terms	15	$735	$726	$46	6%	—	$446 – $735
17	Medica fee schedule · outpatient · +14 other terms	14	$1.1k	$1.1k	$279	25%	—	$661 – $1.7k
18	Kaiser fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	12	$1.3k	$1.2k	$492	42%	—	$541 – $2.3k
19	Highmark fee schedule · outpatient · +9 other terms	11	$508	$556	$232	42%	—	$472 – $2.0k
20	Ucare fee schedule · outpatient · +10 other terms	10	$536	$793	$375	47%	—	$536 – $1.6k
21	Bcbs Mn fee schedule · both · +6 other terms	8	$911	$917	$243	26%	—	$564 – $1.1k
22	Aetna Better Health fee schedule · inpatient · +10 other terms	7	$275	$275	—	—	—	$275 – $275
23	Bcbs La fee schedule · outpatient · +1 other terms	7	$965	$968	$242	25%	—	$496 – $1.3k
24	Healthpartners facility · case rate · outpatient · +7 other terms	7	$279	$279	—	—	—	$279 – $279
25	Medicare fee schedule · both · +8 other terms	7	$624	$616	$63	10%	—	$279 – $1.3k

Page 1 of 3 · 57 payers