Lab
Piedmont Pathology Associates INC
Piedmont Pathology Associates INC was paid $525K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 13 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 80% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPIEDMONT PATHOLOGY ASSOCIATES INC
HICKORY, NC 28602
HICKORY, NC 28602
33aNPI1194998781assigned 04/04/2008
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$525K
24GClaims10,902
24DCodes billed13
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#50 of 128
Median peer was paid$268K
This provider vs. median2.0×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 4,887 | $147K | |
| 2019 | 964 | $59K | |
| 2020 | 780 | $50K | |
| 2021 | 1,492 | $75K | |
| 2022 | 763 | $52K | |
| 2023 | 775 | $48K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,241 | $96K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 80% | 6,739 | 5,344 | $421K |
| 88175 | Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal, any reporting system; collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer | 8.8% | 1,684 | 1,521 | $46K |
| 87624 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types | 2.7% | 589 | 520 | $14K |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 1.6% | 351 | 302 | $8K |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | 1.6% | 348 | 299 | $8K |
| 88141 | 1.2% | 342 | 303 | $6K | |
| 88304 | 1.1% | 133 | 112 | $6K | |
| 88142 | <1% | 234 | 208 | $5K | |
| 87661 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe | <1% | 142 | 120 | $3K |
| 87798 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; not otherwise specified, amplified probe, each organism | <1% | 90 | 78 | $2K |
| 87481 | <1% | 109 | 92 | $2K | |
| 87511 | <1% | 109 | 92 | $2K |
1 more codes
| 88307 | <1% | 32 | $1K |
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 officialSOLCHENBERGER, HOLLYANN (BUSINESS OFFICE MANAGER)