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Hower, Robert

Hower, Robert was paid $68K by Medicaid between Feb 2021 and Oct 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is 99244, Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity — 30% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHOWER, ROBERT
ERIE, PA 16507
33aNPI1053407155assigned 10/05/2006
28Total paid$68K
24GClaims829
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2021 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Gastroenterology Physician providers in Pennsylvania

Rank by total paid#26 of 178
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median12×

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

$0$2.5K$5.0K$7.5K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2021185$20K
2022179$16K
2023279$20K
2024incomplete186$12K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99244 Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity 30% 158 158 $20K
43239 Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, flexible, transoral; with biopsy, single or multiple 25% 198 198 $17K
99214 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity 23% 293 285 $16K
45380 Colonoscopy, flexible; with biopsy, single or multiple 13% 41 41 $9K
99213 Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity 6.3% 115 114 $4K
99204 Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity 1.5% 12 12 $994.10
99203 Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity 1.1% 12 12 $716.16

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.