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Tower Direct LLC

Tower Direct LLC was paid $1.95M by Medicaid between Jul 2020 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is A0427, emergency ambulance ride, advanced life support — 29% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTOWER DIRECT LLC
WEST READING, PA 19611
33aNPI1194165183assigned 07/05/2013
33bProvider typeLand Ambulance
28Total paid$1.95M
24GClaims14,924
24DCodes billed11
24AFirst – last monthJul 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Land Ambulance providers in Pennsylvania

Rank by total paid#32 of 334
Median peer was paid$174K
This provider vs. median11×

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 EHINGER, ROBERT controls 20+ related entities in our dataset. Read more
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$50K$100K$150K2018201920202021202220232024
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
2020811$43K
20213,490$272K
20223,349$222K
20233,114$494K
2024incomplete4,160$917K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
A0427 Emergency ambulance ride, advanced life supportAmbulance service, advanced life support, emergency transport, level 1 (als 1 - emergency) 29% 2,029 1,870 $569K
A0428 Ambulance service, basic life support, non-emergency transport, (bls) 26% 3,998 3,384 $508K
A0429 Emergency ambulance ride, basic life supportAmbulance service, basic life support, emergency transport (bls-emergency) 21% 1,803 1,624 $403K
A0425 Ground mileage, per statute mile 13% 5,057 4,367 $257K
A0426 Ambulance service, advanced life support, non-emergency transport, level 1 (als 1) 7.3% 504 484 $141K
A0432 Paramedic intercept (pi), rural area, transport furnished by a volunteer ambulance company which is prohibited by state law from billing third party payers 2.6% 938 813 $50K
A0998 Ambulance response and treatment, no transport <1% 135 126 $13K
A0434 Specialty care transport (sct) <1% 16 13 $3K
A0130 Non-emergency transportation: wheelchair van <1% 385 332 $3K
S0209 Wheelchair van, mileage, per mile 0% 47 43 $0.00
S0207 Paramedic intercept, non-hospital-based als service (non-voluntary), non-transport 0% 12 12 $0.00

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 officialEHINGER, ROBERT (VP FINANCIAL OPERATIONS)
Same official

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Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.