Pfeifer, Walther

Pfeifer, Walther was paid $107K by Medicaid between Aug 2020 and Oct 2023, across 47 billing codes. Its largest line is U0003, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r — 23% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in Massachusetts

Rank by total paid#24 of 125

Median peer was paid$22K

This provider vs. median5.0×

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
2020	1,502	$27K
2021	298	$9K
2022	497	$10K
2023	5,624	$61K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
U0003	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r	23%	253	221	$24K
80050	General health panel	8.9%	331	328	$10K
80061	Lipid panel	6.5%	637	636	$7K
82306	Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed	6.3%	273	270	$7K
87491	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe	5.9%	165	164	$6K
87591	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe	5.8%	159	158	$6K
86480		3.8%	155	152	$4K
84443	Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)	3.2%	245	241	$3K
85025	Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count	3.0%	512	496	$3K
80053	Comprehensive metabolic panel	3.0%	377	368	$3K
86780		3.0%	278	272	$3K
87522	Neg quan hep c or qual rna	2.9%	80	80	$3K

35 more codes

83036	Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C)	2.9%	434	$3K
36415	Collection of venous blood by venipuncture	2.4%	1,458	$3K
87389	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies	2.3%	122	$2K
86803		2.2%	226	$2K
87635	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe	2.0%	42	$2K
82607		1.7%	147	$2K
80048	Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized)	1.4%	217	$1K
86704		1.0%	105	$1K
87086	Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine	<1%	236	$1K
81001		<1%	277	$720.32
86705		<1%	68	$709.64
85027		<1%	125	$672.37
84439		<1%	86	$650.56
86706		<1%	76	$548.78
82728		<1%	45	$513.90
82746		<1%	58	$513.66
U0005	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, cdc or non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies, completed within 2 calendar days from date of specimen collection (list separately in addition to either hcpcs code u0003 or u0004) as described by cms-2020-01-r2	<1%	28	$487.50
87651	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe	<1%	13	$382.46
84460		<1%	83	$368.75
84450		<1%	82	$355.30
83540		<1%	57	$305.37
80076		<1%	52	$305.06
84075		<1%	67	$291.01
82247		<1%	67	$282.29
84403		<1%	13	$281.45
87340		<1%	26	$234.27
84155		<1%	67	$205.86
82040		<1%	66	$192.87
86618		<1%	12	$169.08
84481		<1%	26	$121.42
82570		<1%	25	$117.18
83550		<1%	12	$87.96
82043		<1%	13	$58.20
82248		<1%	12	$50.52
85652		<1%	13	$29.50

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.