Town of Tewksbury

Town of Tewksbury was paid $1.48M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is A0429, emergency ambulance ride, basic life support — 92% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTOWN OF TEWKSBURY
TEWKSBURY, MA 01876

33aNPI1124091673assigned 02/07/2006

33bProvider typeAmbulance

28Total paid$1.48M

24GClaims14,331

24DCodes billed2

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Ambulance providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#20 of 120

Median peer was paid$282K

This provider vs. median5.2×

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.

Single-Code Concentration92% of spending on code A0429 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.

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	1,604	$131K
2019	1,789	$153K
2020	1,822	$193K
2021	1,948	$166K
2022	2,301	$215K
2023	2,709	$325K
2024incomplete	2,158	$294K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
A0429	Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency)	92%	7,171	6,449	$1.36M
A0425	Ground mileage, per statute mile	8.2%	7,160	6,439	$120K

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 officialHAZEL, MICHAEL (FIRE CHIEF)