Tower Outpatient Surgery Center INC

Tower Outpatient Surgery Center INC was paid $142K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2020, across 8 billing codes. Its largest line is Q4196, Puraply am, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure) — 35% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoTOWER OUTPATIENT SURGERY CENTER INC
BEVERLY HILLS, CA 90210

33aNPI1669687513assigned 05/14/2007

33bProvider typeAmbulatory Surgical Clinic/Center

28Total paid$142K

24GClaims5,856

24DCodes billed8

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2020

Compared with peers

Next to other Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center providers in California

Rank by total paid#192 of 347

Median peer was paid$191K

This provider vs. median0.7×

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

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	4,743	$46K
2019	529	$41K
2020	584	$54K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
Q4196	Puraply am, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)	35%	501	103	$50K
Q4195	Puraply, per square centimeter (add-on, list separately in addition to primary procedure)	30%	172	58	$43K
11042	Debridement, subcutaneous tissue (includes epidermis, dermis, and subcutaneous tissue); first 20 sq cm	13%	1,298	484	$18K
29581		11%	1,448	406	$15K
Q4172	Puraply or puraply am, per square centimeter	9.6%	128	46	$14K
15271		1.2%	369	147	$2K
G8907	Patient documented not to have experienced any of the following events: a burn prior to discharge; a fall within the facility; wrong site/side/patient/procedure/implant event; or a hospital transfer or hospital admission upon discharge from the facility	<1%	997	386	$0.15
G8918	Patient without preoperative order for iv antibiotic surgical site infection (ssi) prophylaxis	0%	943	372	$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 officialARONOWITZ, JOEL (MEDICAL DIRECTOR)

Same official

Other billing entities under ARONOWITZ, JOEL

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Tower Wound Care Center of Santa Monica, INC.	Santa Monica, CA	$1K

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