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Metwest INC.

Metwest INC. was paid $69K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2018, across 26 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 30% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMETWEST INC.
BILLINGS, MT 59101
33aNPI1235157280assigned 07/18/2006
28Total paid$69K
24GClaims7,189
24DCodes billed26
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Mar 2018
Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Montana

Rank by total paid#12 of 18
Median peer was paid$125K
This provider vs. median0.6×

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

$0$10K$20K$30K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20187,189$69K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
84443 Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) 30% 1,021 994 $21K
85025 Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count 24% 1,448 1,372 $17K
80061 Lipid panel 16% 915 887 $11K
80053 Comprehensive metabolic panel 13% 1,455 1,409 $9K
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) 5.1% 390 379 $4K
84439 2.2% 192 188 $2K
80048 Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) 2.0% 230 211 $1K
84153 1.7% 67 64 $1K
82728 1.0% 58 58 $721.55
82040 <1% 90 88 $599.30
83550 <1% 59 59 $491.05
83540 <1% 62 62 $378.98
14 more codes
85652 <1% 171 $331.09
84702 <1% 14 $250.76
84550 <1% 59 $237.02
85610 <1% 63 $232.39
83735 <1% 38 $203.74
81003 <1% 65 $142.05
85027 <1% 13 $69.66
84450 <1% 96 $18.60
84520 <1% 91 $6.25
84460 0% 95 $0.00
82565 0% 90 $0.00
80307 Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay 0% 26 $0.00
36415 Collection of venous blood by venipuncture 0% 369 $0.00
G0480 Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 1-7 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed 0% 12 $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

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialCARTIER, GERALD (VP NATIONAL BILLING)
Parent organizationQUEST DIAGNOSTICS INCORPORATED
Same official

Other billing entities under CARTIER, GERALD

Full network →
ProviderLocationPaid
Quest Diagnostics LLC IlNew Brighton, MN$6.55M
Unilab CorporationBanning, CA$37K
Metwest INC.West Valley City, UT$11K
Quest Diagnostics Clinical Laboratories INCRocky Mount, NC$7K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.