Ascension Seton
Ascension Seton was paid $2.14M by Medicaid between Nov 2020 and Nov 2024, across 29 billing codes. Its largest line is 99283, emergency room visit (moderate) — 51% of everything it billed.
LULING, TX 78648
Next to other Critical Access Hospital providers in Texas
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 321 | $27K | |
| 2021 | 5,319 | $515K | |
| 2022 | 7,080 | $977K | |
| 2023 | 5,366 | $538K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,152 | $83K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | 51% | 3,390 | 3,315 | $1.09M |
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 14% | 639 | 602 | $306K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 13% | 1,910 | 1,829 | $285K |
| 85027 | 5.7% | 1,129 | 1,097 | $122K | |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 5.5% | 1,054 | 1,036 | $117K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 2.1% | 495 | 489 | $44K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 1.8% | 59 | 56 | $39K |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 1.3% | 1,042 | 1,012 | $29K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 1,779 | 872 | $20K |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | <1% | 928 | 895 | $16K |
| 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 | <1% | 170 | 168 | $11K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 279 | 272 | $10K |
17 more codes
| 83655 | <1% | 110 | $9K | |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | <1% | 14 | $7K |
| 87070 | <1% | 72 | $7K | |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | <1% | 14 | $7K |
| 87389 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies | <1% | 14 | $4K |
| 71045 | Radiologic examination, chest; single view | <1% | 97 | $4K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 1,335 | $4K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 3,753 | $2K |
| 86592 | <1% | 14 | $2K | |
| 87340 | <1% | 12 | $2K | |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 201 | $2K |
| 81001 | <1% | 459 | $2K | |
| 93005 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; tracing only, without interpretation and report | <1% | 13 | $1K |
| 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% | 171 | $1K |
| 82728 | <1% | 13 | $1K | |
| 81025 | <1% | 44 | $300.42 | |
| 87807 | <1% | 28 | $145.99 |
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.
Who's on the registration
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Ascension Seton | Austin, TX | $29.44M |
| University of Toledo Dentists, INC | Toledo, OH | $3.94M |
| Ascension Seton | Burnet, TX | $925K |
| Ascension Seton | Lockhart, TX | $423K |
| Ascension Seton | Smithville, TX | $283K |
| Ascension Seton | Burnet, TX | $209K |
| Ascension Seton | Bastrop, TX | $139K |
| Ascension Seton | Austin, TX | $131K |
| Ascension Seton | Bertram, TX | $21K |
| Ascension Seton | Burnet, TX | $11K |
| Ascension Seton | Kingsland, TX | $9K |
| Ascension Seton | Dripping Springs, TX | $6K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.