Star Medical Lab LLC

Star Medical Lab LLC was paid $1.19M by Medicaid between May 2022 and Nov 2024, across 17 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 — 29% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#72 of 235

Median peer was paid$123K

This provider vs. median9.7×

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
2022	3,822	$146K
2023	16,178	$628K
2024incomplete	8,775	$414K

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	29%	5,076	1,487	$350K
G0481	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; 8-14 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed	17%	2,604	2,378	$205K
87635	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe	15%	4,041	1,116	$183K
G2023	Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source	11%	6,322	1,597	$132K
80307	Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay	11%	3,044	2,682	$127K
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	8.3%	4,404	1,485	$99K
99000		4.5%	2,486	2,189	$53K
87637	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and RSV	1.9%	249	249	$22K
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	<1%	190	71	$12K
86480		<1%	44	42	$2K
80053	Comprehensive metabolic panel	<1%	95	84	$830.64
85025	Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count	<1%	93	82	$507.62

5 more codes

86803		<1%	14	$197.18
87341		<1%	13	$120.05
86592		<1%	30	$113.42
81001		<1%	38	$106.83
36415	Collection of venous blood by venipuncture	<1%	32	$6.37

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 officialCARDENAS, SOYLA (BUSINESS CO-OWNER)