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Signature Diagnostics INC

Signature Diagnostics INC was paid $177K by Medicaid between Aug 2021 and Mar 2023, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is U0004, 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r — 85% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSIGNATURE DIAGNOSTICS INC
PITTSBURGH, PA 15233
33aNPI1356920243assigned 04/07/2021
28Total paid$177K
24GClaims4,396
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthAug 2021 – Mar 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Pennsylvania

Rank by total paid#46 of 95
Median peer was paid$153K
This provider vs. median1.2×

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

$0$20K$40K$60K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20211,629$65K
20222,595$107K
2023172$6K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
U0004 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r 85% 2,156 1,947 $150K
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 15% 2,004 1,807 $27K
G2023 Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source <1% 236 200 $324.38

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 officialCALDWELL, JP (LABORATORY GENERAL MANAGER)