Kessler, Galen

Kessler, Galen was paid $2.00M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Mar 2024, across 139 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 — 20% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in Illinois

Rank by total paid#38 of 398

Median peer was paid$66K

This provider vs. median30×

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	32,220	$207K
2019	36,909	$220K
2020	37,639	$262K
2021	40,979	$509K
2022	37,908	$413K
2023	35,121	$298K
2024incomplete	12,861	$92K

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	20%	6,926	5,685	$392K
80053	Comprehensive metabolic panel	5.8%	22,648	19,034	$117K
0202U	Oncology (prostate), multianalyte, gene expression profiling	5.5%	446	431	$109K
87491	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe	4.5%	3,937	3,751	$90K
87591	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe	4.5%	3,936	3,750	$90K
85025	Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count	4.4%	29,735	23,254	$87K
88307		3.7%	1,406	1,271	$74K
88305	Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination	3.6%	2,524	2,359	$72K
87389	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies	3.5%	1,358	1,265	$70K
84443	Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH)	2.4%	6,009	5,606	$48K
80307	Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay	2.3%	1,940	1,697	$46K
87086	Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine	1.9%	7,330	6,771	$38K

127 more codes

87480		1.8%	2,811	$35K
87510		1.8%	2,807	$35K
87635	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe	1.6%	889	$33K
80048	Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized)	1.6%	7,557	$32K
0241U	Neonatal screening for hereditary disorders, genomic sequence analysis panel	1.6%	453	$31K
88341		1.6%	640	$31K
88304		1.3%	1,395	$26K
82803		1.2%	2,345	$24K
83735		1.2%	6,831	$24K
87040		1.2%	2,394	$24K
87660		1.2%	2,956	$24K
88342		1.1%	1,154	$22K
83605		1.0%	3,684	$20K
82962		<1%	9,942	$18K
87641		<1%	709	$16K
87081		<1%	5,713	$16K
84484		<1%	3,002	$14K
82330		<1%	1,643	$14K
80061	Lipid panel	<1%	3,950	$13K
87186		<1%	2,282	$13K
87624	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types	<1%	823	$12K
82306	Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed	<1%	1,628	$12K
85730		<1%	2,529	$11K
85610		<1%	4,970	$10K
87804	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type	<1%	764	$10K
86780		<1%	1,137	$10K
87633	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, respiratory virus, 12-25 targets	<1%	172	$10K
83036	Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C)	<1%	2,959	$9K
83690		<1%	2,640	$9K
86850		<1%	2,815	$8K
81001		<1%	5,303	$8K
80069		<1%	1,787	$7K
81025		<1%	3,681	$7K
83880		<1%	720	$7K
86901		<1%	3,023	$7K
84439		<1%	1,587	$7K
84100		<1%	3,041	$7K
86140		<1%	2,661	$6K
82607		<1%	952	$6K
86900		<1%	2,980	$5K
82728		<1%	1,267	$5K
87088		<1%	891	$5K
86803		<1%	584	$5K
88141		<1%	414	$5K
85384		<1%	1,455	$4K
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	<1%	178	$4K
84466		<1%	1,017	$4K
87147		<1%	2,482	$4K
87581		<1%	173	$4K
80202		<1%	586	$4K
82570		<1%	1,678	$4K
87486		<1%	173	$4K
87798	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; not otherwise specified, amplified probe, each organism	<1%	171	$4K
87070		<1%	1,139	$4K
87880	Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A	<1%	467	$4K
85379		<1%	951	$4K
87651	Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe	<1%	155	$3K
81003		<1%	3,083	$3K
84702		<1%	700	$3K
82784		<1%	399	$3K
83540		<1%	914	$3K
87340		<1%	409	$3K
82550		<1%	889	$3K
85027		<1%	994	$3K
83615		<1%	959	$3K
85014		<1%	2,077	$2K
85652		<1%	1,448	$2K
80047		<1%	394	$2K
82746		<1%	301	$2K
82805		<1%	65	$2K
83970		<1%	107	$2K
87205		<1%	767	$1K
86003		<1%	39	$1K
87077		<1%	457	$1K
82565		<1%	588	$1K
82043		<1%	663	$1K
86038		<1%	161	$1K
87493		<1%	51	$1K
83516		<1%	192	$1K
84550		<1%	538	$1K
85018		<1%	1,073	$1K
84703		<1%	299	$1K
84478		<1%	398	$891.54
84132		<1%	489	$861.27
86920		<1%	194	$836.27
82247		<1%	332	$831.04
84156		<1%	714	$796.55
84295		<1%	452	$787.11
86480		<1%	29	$714.19
87505		<1%	14	$713.75
G0103	Prostate cancer screening; prostate specific antigen test (psa)	<1%	75	$656.27
87536		<1%	15	$586.59
82947		<1%	354	$582.67
86762		<1%	120	$542.53
83655		<1%	84	$477.39
82248		<1%	221	$438.56
84146		<1%	66	$416.76
80076		<1%	120	$412.74
85045		<1%	320	$405.47
82785		<1%	60	$279.11
87075		<1%	35	$240.63
84481		<1%	51	$229.24
87807		<1%	44	$216.29
86360		<1%	16	$211.36
82140		<1%	47	$203.21
86706		<1%	26	$182.00
80177		<1%	37	$173.12
85576		<1%	14	$164.34
82951		<1%	27	$163.80
86359		<1%	15	$158.48
82077		<1%	14	$145.04
85347		<1%	47	$124.46
80164		<1%	27	$117.40
82670		<1%	14	$117.32
82533		<1%	17	$110.73
86880		<1%	28	$102.95
88312		<1%	12	$94.40
87184		<1%	19	$76.50
86376		<1%	18	$67.69
86592		<1%	38	$67.00
86431		<1%	21	$66.97
85049		<1%	47	$66.24
87210		<1%	13	$56.40
82950		<1%	21	$53.60
81015		<1%	35	$45.85
84300		<1%	13	$29.68
86308		<1%	12	$28.80

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.