Revenue & Billing · American Logistics (ALC)
NEMT Billing for American Logistics (ALC) Trips
American Logistics doesn't take invoices. Its own provider FAQ answers that question in one word: no. ALC collects the fee from the health plan and pushes payment out to you, and the dollar value of each trip is on the offer before you accept it. So the money isn't won in a claims department. It's won or lost in the trip record, and in whether anyone reads the summaries afterwards.
The whole American Logistics payment cycle, one team
SS Support Network is an independent billing service provider. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with American Logistics (ALC), and all broker names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. We reconcile and bill trips on behalf of transportation providers who contract with American Logistics.
Quick Answer
American Logistics pays differently from most NEMT brokers, and that changes what a billing service does for you. ALC's provider FAQ states that providers do not invoice: American Logistics collects fees for trips from its clients and then distributes payments, and every service offer shows the monetary value of that trip before you accept it. There is no claim form and no clearinghouse in the middle. What there is instead is a trip record your drivers build in the RideCafe mobile app, which ALC says now captures timestamps and trip events automatically, plus daily and weekly summaries of serviced trips published to your portal. SS Support Network reads those summaries against your own dispatch log, finds the trips that paid short, paid at the wrong level of service, or never appeared at all, and takes them back to ALC provider relations with the evidence attached. We also run the claim-based payers in your mix, because almost nobody runs ALC alone. Our team is trained on ALC's process and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or partnered with American Logistics; trip volume and payment decisions rest solely with the broker.
The short answer
What does billing an American Logistics trip actually mean?
Ask most NEMT billers about a broker and they will start talking about claim scrubbing and timely filing. Those words don't apply here. In ALC's own published answers to providers, you don't invoice at all. The broker collects from the health plan and distributes payment, and the value of each trip sits on the offer before you press accept. American Logistics has been building toward that since 1999, and when it announced in June 2024 that its mobile app had reached a 98% utilization rate among transportation providers, it said the point out loud: live recording of timestamps and trip events removes manual documentation and speeds payment to contracted partners.
Which sounds like billing solves itself. It doesn't. It moves. Every dollar now rests on three things you control: which offers you take, whether the driver worked the app properly on the road, and whether anyone reads the summaries afterwards. The rest of this page covers those three in the order the money moves.
Step 1
The offer is the price: reading American Logistics trip offers
With ALC the negotiation happens before the wheels turn. Trips arrive in RideCafe as offers, and the provider FAQ is blunt about it: when you receive a service offer you know the monetary value for that trip. Accept it and you have agreed to that number. Nothing downstream improves it, because there is no fee schedule to bill against and no adjudication step where a better rate could appear.
That makes trip selection a revenue decision, not a dispatch decision. A long deadhead to a low-value ambulatory run and a short, well-paid wheelchair trip look the same on a screen at six in the morning. We watch the offer queue with your cost per loaded mile in hand, flag the acceptance patterns that lose money across a week rather than across one trip, and keep a record of what you accepted at what value, so that when a payment doesn't match, you have the offer to hold it against. ALC is also open about the fact that it doesn't control how many trips are available and guarantees none of them, so the mix you accept is most of what you can influence.
Step 2
The RideCafe app is your documentation. Treat it that way.
ALC requires contracted providers to be certified on RideCafe and requires employee drivers to use the RideCafe mobile app, and that app records timestamps and trip events live. Automation is good for you right up to the moment a driver runs a route with the phone face-down in the cupholder. Then the trip event that proves you were there was never created, and there is no paper run sheet to fall back on, because the whole model was designed to retire the run sheet.
The money that goes missing on an ALC contract usually traces back to app discipline rather than to anything the broker did wrong. A driver marking arrival from the parking lot instead of the door. A will-call return closed out against the wrong trip. A no-show recorded as a completion, or a completion recorded as a no-show. We audit the app data against your dispatch record daily, name the drivers whose trips keep coming back light, and get the habit corrected while the trip is still recent enough to fix.
Step 3
Why do American Logistics trips pay short, or not at all?
There is no denial code to look up, and that is exactly the problem. An ALC trip that pays wrong pays quietly. The patterns that repeat: a trip serviced but never closed out in the app; a level of service delivered above what was offered, such as a wheelchair run dispatched against an ambulatory offer; wait time or a second leg that never reached the record; a cancellation at the door coded as something else; and a trip run by a driver or in a vehicle whose credential had lapsed, since ALC only assigns trips to drivers and vehicles it shows as fully credentialed.
Each of those needs different evidence. We build the file: the original offer with its stated value, the GPS trail, the dispatch entry, the driver's app record. It goes to provider relations as a specific dated dispute about named trips, not a phone call about a deposit that looked light. Check the dispute window in your own Transportation Provider Agreement before you rely on it, because that deadline is contractual and nobody should be quoting it to you off a web page.
Step 4
How do you reconcile ALC's daily and weekly summaries?
American Logistics publishes daily and weekly summaries of serviced trips to the provider portal. Hardly any small fleet reads them. They are the only place a missing trip surfaces while it is still recent enough to argue about.
Reconciliation here is a three-column job: what dispatch says you ran, what the app recorded, what the summary paid. Where all three agree, the trip is closed and you can stop thinking about it. Where they don't, we work the exception that same week. Across a month, that is the difference between believing your revenue and knowing it, and it is the first task that gets dropped when the phones are loud.
Approved, then paid
Credentialing keeps the offers coming. Reconciliation keeps the money.
With ALC these two are wired together more tightly than with most brokers. Trips are only offered to fully credentialed providers, and you can only assign them to drivers and vehicles ALC has verified as fully credentialed. So a certificate that quietly expires is not just a compliance problem for later; it shrinks your offer queue this week, and nobody sends you a notice explaining why the volume dropped. If you are not credentialed yet, start there. If you are running trips and the deposits don't match the schedule, start with the summaries.
How it works
Three steps to trusting your American Logistics revenue
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Free payment review
Send one week of ALC summaries and your dispatch log for the same dates. We line them up and tell you which trips didn't match, named individually. Written back within 1 business day.
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We take the reconciliation
Working in RideCafe under your own login: offers checked against payments, app data audited driver by driver, disputes opened with provider relations on the trips that paid wrong.
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And the rest of your payers
Straight Medicaid, Medicare Advantage plans and any other broker in your mix still run on claims. We file those too, so one team sees the whole revenue picture instead of half of it.
Common questions
American Logistics billing, answered straight
No, and neither do you. ALC's provider FAQ answers the invoicing question directly: American Logistics collects fees for trips from its clients and then distributes payments, and the monetary value of each trip is shown on the offer before you accept it. Our job is making sure the trip record supports the payment you were promised, and chasing the trips where it doesn't.
Usually the record disagrees with the run. A trip serviced but never closed in the app, a wheelchair trip delivered against an ambulatory offer, wait time or a return leg that never got recorded, a door cancellation coded as something else, or a driver or vehicle whose credential had lapsed so the trip was never validly assigned. We pull the original offer, the GPS trail and the dispatch entry, then take a dated dispute on named trips to provider relations.
Yes, under your own login with role-based access. ALC requires contracted providers to be certified on RideCafe and requires employee drivers to use the RideCafe mobile app, so that is where the trip data lives and that is where we work. Nothing gets copied into a separate platform, and you keep full visibility into every trip and payment.
No. SS Support Network is an independent billing service provider. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or partnered with American Logistics, and all broker names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. We reconcile and bill trips on behalf of transportation providers who contract with American Logistics.
Yes, and with ALC in the mix it matters more than usual. Because the ALC side runs without invoicing, a fleet that outsources only its claims work ends up with nobody watching the payer that pays automatically. We reconcile ALC and file the actual claims for straight Medicaid, Medicare Advantage plans and any other broker you run, so both halves of your revenue are read by the same people.
Your RideCafe access, a month of ALC daily and weekly summaries, and the dispatch log covering the same dates. The free review lines all three up and names the trips that didn't reconcile, before you commit to anything.
Want us to read a week of your ALC summaries against your dispatch log? Call +1 (657) 777-0006, 24/7.
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Did ALC pay you for every trip you actually ran?
Send a week of American Logistics summaries and the dispatch log for the same dates. Within 1 business day you get the trips that didn't reconcile, named, plus a flat quote to run the reconciliation and your claim-based payers. No sales pressure.
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