Shields Imaging of Lowell General Hospital LLC
Shields Imaging of Lowell General Hospital LLC was paid $1.32M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 11 billing codes. Its largest line is 70553, Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences — 29% of everything it billed.
LOWELL, MA 01852
Next to other Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Clinic/Center providers in Massachusetts
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,427 | $172K | |
| 2019 | 1,415 | $170K | |
| 2020 | 1,335 | $140K | |
| 2021 | 2,033 | $226K | |
| 2022 | 1,753 | $196K | |
| 2023 | 1,961 | $223K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,730 | $188K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70553 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material, followed by contrast material and further sequences | 29% | 1,610 | 1,585 | $380K |
| 70551 | Magnetic resonance imaging, brain; without contrast material | 18% | 1,704 | 1,687 | $239K |
| 74183 | 17% | 1,126 | 1,109 | $229K | |
| 72148 | Magnetic resonance imaging, lumbar spine; without contrast material | 13% | 1,455 | 1,443 | $175K |
| 77049 | 6.4% | 341 | 337 | $84K | |
| 72197 | 5.4% | 260 | 253 | $71K | |
| A9575 | Injection, gadoterate meglumine, 0.1 ml | 3.1% | 3,962 | 3,783 | $40K |
| 73721 | Magnetic resonance imaging, any joint of lower extremity; without contrast material | 3.0% | 219 | 215 | $39K |
| 72141 | 2.9% | 303 | 302 | $39K | |
| 73221 | <1% | 86 | 85 | $13K | |
| A9579 | Injection, gadolinium-based magnetic resonance contrast agent, not otherwise specified (nos), per ml | <1% | 588 | 576 | $6K |
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
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.