Lab
Mercado Cruz, Sonia
Mercado Cruz, Sonia was paid $619K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 39 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 13% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERCADO CRUZ, SONIA
JUANA DIAZ, PR 00795
JUANA DIAZ, PR 00795
33aNPI1235314790assigned 01/03/2008
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$619K
24GClaims67,130
24DCodes billed39
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#215 of 777
Median peer was paid$278K
This provider vs. median2.2×
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 | 7,607 | $57K | |
| 2019 | 7,118 | $58K | |
| 2020 | 4,963 | $40K | |
| 2021 | 9,554 | $96K | |
| 2022 | 8,994 | $90K | |
| 2023 | 17,226 | $158K | |
| 2024incomplete | 11,668 | $120K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 13% | 6,153 | 5,546 | $82K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 13% | 6,660 | 5,988 | $81K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 7.4% | 5,549 | 4,905 | $46K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 7.4% | 7,754 | 6,939 | $46K |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 7.1% | 1,422 | 1,197 | $44K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 4.9% | 1,196 | 996 | $30K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 4.7% | 839 | 772 | $29K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 4.6% | 3,384 | 3,018 | $29K |
| 82274 | 4.5% | 2,094 | 1,829 | $28K | |
| 81000 | 4.1% | 8,470 | 7,505 | $25K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | 3.5% | 3,571 | 3,159 | $21K |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 3.3% | 2,767 | 2,549 | $21K |
27 more codes
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 3.2% | 827 | $20K |
| 86701 | 3.1% | 2,465 | $19K | |
| 87590 | 2.0% | 681 | $12K | |
| 84439 | 1.9% | 1,610 | $12K | |
| 84153 | 1.7% | 691 | $11K | |
| 87088 | 1.3% | 1,080 | $8K | |
| 82043 | 1.3% | 1,620 | $8K | |
| 82607 | 1.3% | 622 | $8K | |
| 86592 | 1.3% | 2,066 | $8K | |
| 80050 | General health panel | 1.0% | 715 | $6K |
| 85027 | 1.0% | 1,189 | $6K | |
| 86328 | <1% | 311 | $6K | |
| 86803 | <1% | 268 | $3K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 387 | $3K |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | <1% | 81 | $3K |
| 84436 | <1% | 211 | $1K | |
| 82570 | <1% | 243 | $1K | |
| 85730 | <1% | 177 | $930.29 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 197 | $675.01 | |
| 82947 | <1% | 69 | $234.09 | |
| 86703 | <1% | 17 | $194.03 | |
| 85651 | <1% | 55 | $156.09 | |
| 86738 | <1% | 12 | $140.35 | |
| 87177 | <1% | 12 | $53.76 | |
| P9615 | Catheterization for collection of specimen(s) (multiple patients) | <1% | 21 | $51.00 |
| 3044F | 0% | 1,238 | $0.00 | |
| 3061F | 0% | 406 | $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.