Physician
Costlow, James
Costlow, James was paid $50K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Feb 2022, across 23 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCOSTLOW, JAMES
MONROEVILLE, PA 15146
MONROEVILLE, PA 15146
33aNPI1043228059assigned 08/04/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$50K
24GClaims5,335
24DCodes billed23
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Feb 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Pennsylvania
Rank by total paid#319 of 1,726
Median peer was paid$6K
This provider vs. median7.6×
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 | 62 | $539.26 | |
| 2019 | 14 | $118.82 | |
| 2020 | 371 | $4K | |
| 2021 | 4,404 | $41K | |
| 2022 | 484 | $4K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 24% | 505 | 503 | $12K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 22% | 763 | 760 | $11K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 22% | 898 | 892 | $11K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 7.3% | 571 | 562 | $4K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 6.9% | 456 | 454 | $3K |
| 87081 | 5.6% | 406 | 396 | $3K | |
| 85027 | 4.1% | 258 | 258 | $2K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 2.2% | 113 | 112 | $1K |
| 82607 | 2.1% | 75 | 75 | $1K | |
| 84439 | <1% | 38 | 38 | $334.66 | |
| 83721 | <1% | 27 | 27 | $316.80 | |
| 82043 | <1% | 28 | 28 | $222.00 |
11 more codes
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.