Citadel Diagnostics

Citadel Diagnostics was paid $613K by Medicaid between Mar 2022 and Jul 2023, across 4 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 — 90% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in California

Rank by total paid#217 of 561

Median peer was paid$222K

This provider vs. median2.8×

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	10,291	$592K
2023	380	$21K

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	90%	7,479	4,907	$551K
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	9.6%	3,120	2,085	$59K
87635	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe	<1%	54	25	$3K
87426	Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19)	<1%	18	18	$564.93

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 officialVALDEZ, ALFREDO (OWNER)