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Laboratorio Clinico Tropical, INC.
Laboratorio Clinico Tropical, INC. was paid $1.24M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2023, across 54 billing codes. Its largest line is 87426, Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) — 20% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLABORATORIO CLINICO TROPICAL, INC.
CAGUAS, PR 00725
CAGUAS, PR 00725
33aNPI1194726760assigned 08/04/2005
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$1.24M
24GClaims87,327
24DCodes billed54
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#92 of 777
Median peer was paid$278K
This provider vs. median4.4×
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 | 7,636 | $67K | |
| 2019 | 10,494 | $91K | |
| 2020 | 21,113 | $233K | |
| 2021 | 23,340 | $439K | |
| 2022 | 20,680 | $360K | |
| 2023 | 4,064 | $47K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 20% | 5,901 | 5,264 | $248K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 15% | 7,776 | 6,885 | $183K |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 8.9% | 6,550 | 6,030 | $109K |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 7.2% | 1,801 | 1,662 | $89K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 6.8% | 6,235 | 5,775 | $84K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 6.3% | 7,361 | 6,758 | $78K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 5.9% | 10,575 | 9,631 | $73K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 3.7% | 1,789 | 1,662 | $46K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 2.9% | 3,805 | 3,536 | $36K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 2.9% | 3,403 | 1,771 | $36K |
| 86328 | 2.7% | 1,795 | 1,657 | $33K | |
| 86703 | 1.7% | 1,911 | 1,772 | $22K |
42 more codes
| 81001 | 1.6% | 7,087 | $19K | |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 1.2% | 476 | $15K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | 1.2% | 1,942 | $15K |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | 1.2% | 451 | $14K |
| 82274 | 1.1% | 1,071 | $14K | |
| 80074 | <1% | 267 | $12K | |
| 82043 | <1% | 2,190 | $11K | |
| 84153 | <1% | 664 | $11K | |
| 87088 | <1% | 1,259 | $11K | |
| 86738 | <1% | 854 | $10K | |
| 84439 | <1% | 930 | $8K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 983 | $7K |
| 84436 | <1% | 944 | $6K | |
| 86592 | <1% | 1,529 | $6K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 649 | $5K |
| 81000 | <1% | 1,416 | $5K | |
| 84479 | <1% | 955 | $5K | |
| 82607 | <1% | 354 | $5K | |
| 87205 | <1% | 1,043 | $4K | |
| 86706 | <1% | 235 | $2K | |
| 85732 | <1% | 388 | $2K | |
| 85007 | <1% | 695 | $2K | |
| 86704 | <1% | 152 | $2K | |
| 87276 | <1% | 164 | $2K | |
| 87275 | <1% | 164 | $2K | |
| 86708 | <1% | 151 | $2K | |
| 85610 | <1% | 360 | $1K | |
| 85651 | <1% | 333 | $975.11 | |
| 82570 | <1% | 117 | $489.62 | |
| 86702 | <1% | 38 | $326.89 | |
| 87070 | <1% | 41 | $315.93 | |
| 85027 | <1% | 56 | $299.81 | |
| 86701 | <1% | 35 | $251.21 | |
| 82947 | <1% | 41 | $139.11 | |
| 84460 | <1% | 23 | $105.34 | |
| 84450 | <1% | 23 | $102.81 | |
| 82950 | <1% | 17 | $70.07 | |
| 84156 | <1% | 13 | $39.48 | |
| 3044F | 0% | 146 | $0.00 | |
| 3049F | 0% | 30 | $0.00 | |
| 3048F | 0% | 110 | $0.00 | |
| 3050F | 0% | 29 | $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
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Authorized officialCAMACHO, CARMEN (DIRECTOR)