Physician
Dulce R De Castro M D a Professional Corporation
Dulce R De Castro M D a Professional Corporation was paid $660K by Medicaid between Mar 2018 and Feb 2023, across 83 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 16% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDULCE R DE CASTRO M D A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION
UPLAND, CA 91786
UPLAND, CA 91786
33aNPI1063922284assigned 10/02/2017
33bProvider typeAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician
28Total paid$660K
24GClaims345,842
24DCodes billed83
24AFirst – last monthMar 2018 – Feb 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#48 of 222
Median peer was paid$42K
This provider vs. median16×
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 | 570 | $19K | |
| 2019 | 35,793 | $89K | |
| 2020 | 89,617 | $151K | |
| 2021 | 111,074 | $185K | |
| 2022 | 94,559 | $182K | |
| 2023 | 14,229 | $33K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 16% | 2,774 | 2,691 | $103K |
| 87641 | 11% | 2,855 | 2,466 | $70K | |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 10% | 60,942 | 34,308 | $66K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 9.2% | 40,887 | 23,543 | $60K |
| 88307 | 8.8% | 735 | 726 | $58K | |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 4.2% | 707 | 664 | $28K |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 4.2% | 23,728 | 13,996 | $28K |
| 88304 | 3.2% | 998 | 988 | $21K | |
| 83880 | 2.8% | 3,789 | 3,029 | $18K | |
| 84484 | 2.4% | 12,003 | 9,251 | $16K | |
| 88342 | 2.2% | 414 | 404 | $15K | |
| 83690 | 2.2% | 15,437 | 13,235 | $14K |
71 more codes
| 84145 | 1.8% | 3,501 | $12K | |
| 83735 | 1.7% | 11,667 | $11K | |
| 84703 | 1.7% | 11,055 | $11K | |
| 82948 | 1.5% | 22,812 | $10K | |
| 81003 | 1.1% | 23,981 | $7K | |
| 85730 | 1.1% | 8,708 | $7K | |
| 83605 | <1% | 4,193 | $6K | |
| 84702 | <1% | 2,812 | $6K | |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | <1% | 2,590 | $6K |
| 85610 | <1% | 8,544 | $5K | |
| 87040 | <1% | 3,262 | $5K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 4,057 | $5K |
| 82330 | <1% | 3,327 | $4K | |
| 85378 | <1% | 3,359 | $3K | |
| 84100 | <1% | 6,026 | $3K | |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 2,342 | $3K |
| 80202 | <1% | 1,529 | $3K | |
| 82140 | <1% | 1,416 | $3K | |
| 86140 | <1% | 3,847 | $3K | |
| 87077 | <1% | 2,356 | $3K | |
| 82728 | <1% | 1,384 | $3K | |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 1,385 | $3K |
| 87186 | <1% | 2,074 | $2K | |
| 86901 | <1% | 5,631 | $2K | |
| 86900 | <1% | 5,536 | $2K | |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 735 | $2K |
| 82553 | <1% | 1,155 | $2K | |
| 85027 | <1% | 2,076 | $2K | |
| 80076 | <1% | 1,885 | $2K | |
| 86850 | <1% | 4,147 | $2K | |
| 87493 | <1% | 394 | $2K | |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | <1% | 812 | $2K |
| 82550 | <1% | 2,533 | $2K | |
| 84439 | <1% | 1,220 | $2K | |
| 87070 | <1% | 929 | $1K | |
| 83615 | <1% | 2,387 | $1K | |
| 82607 | <1% | 527 | $1K | |
| 84134 | <1% | 508 | $1K | |
| 87210 | <1% | 313 | $893.22 | |
| 82746 | <1% | 415 | $834.66 | |
| 86592 | <1% | 1,096 | $748.33 | |
| 80074 | <1% | 108 | $735.74 | |
| 83550 | <1% | 623 | $722.44 | |
| 82248 | <1% | 922 | $646.16 | |
| 87075 | <1% | 464 | $636.00 | |
| 83540 | <1% | 667 | $625.28 | |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | <1% | 149 | $600.17 |
| 80320 | <1% | 486 | $588.61 | |
| 85060 | <1% | 57 | $574.48 | |
| 87341 | <1% | 351 | $523.97 | |
| 85651 | <1% | 1,235 | $473.18 | |
| 87081 | <1% | 542 | $470.87 | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 2,467 | $350.05 |
| 82009 | <1% | 526 | $316.64 | |
| 86706 | <1% | 190 | $290.09 | |
| 82565 | <1% | 426 | $277.55 | |
| 85014 | <1% | 671 | $275.12 | |
| 85018 | <1% | 666 | $262.92 | |
| 82570 | <1% | 311 | $236.67 | |
| 87147 | <1% | 312 | $225.28 | |
| 87205 | <1% | 308 | $168.43 | |
| 89051 | <1% | 38 | $132.23 | |
| 87807 | <1% | 60 | $90.62 | |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 86 | $89.63 |
| 84156 | <1% | 155 | $82.68 | |
| 80329 | <1% | 30 | $43.89 | |
| 84520 | <1% | 65 | $29.65 | |
| 86803 | <1% | 12 | $26.90 | |
| 84478 | <1% | 70 | $25.49 | |
| 84300 | <1% | 26 | $18.65 | |
| 82945 | <1% | 24 | $12.47 |
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.
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Authorized officialDE CASTRO, DULCE (PRESIDENT)