Lester E Cox Medical Centers

Lester E Cox Medical Centers was paid $25.78M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 36% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoLESTER E COX MEDICAL CENTERS
SPRINGFIELD, MO 65807

33aNPI1114044823assigned 03/26/2007

33bProvider typeLand Ambulance

28Total paid$25.78M

24GClaims162,946

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Missouri

Rank by total paid#2 of 118

Median peer was paid$822K

This provider vs. median31×

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.

Auditor's notes

Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.

Entity ProliferationAuthorized official MCWAY, JACOB controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more

Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

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

Year	Claims	Paid
2018	17,532	$2.47M
2019	18,774	$2.64M
2020	19,411	$2.94M
2021	24,100	$4.03M
2022	28,529	$4.94M
2023	30,781	$5.20M
2024incomplete	23,819	$3.56M

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0427	Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency)	36%	37,780	33,498	$9.25M
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	31%	37,866	32,731	$8.10M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	31%	81,469	66,976	$8.03M
A0428	Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls)	1.2%	5,279	4,766	$300K
A0998	Ambulance response and treatment, no transport	<1%	438	352	$76K
A0433	Advanced life support, level 2 (als 2)	<1%	114	108	$25K

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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialMCWAY, JACOB (SR VICE-PRESIDENT & CFO)

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Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$112.33M
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Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$795K
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Lester E Cox Medical Centers	Springfield, MO	$440K
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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.