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Merso Labs INC.

Merso Labs INC. was paid $62K by Medicaid between Aug 2020 and May 2021, across 5 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 — 75% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMERSO LABS INC.
LOMPOC, CA 93436
33aNPI1437767480assigned 07/16/2020
28Total paid$62K
24GClaims2,561
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthAug 2020 – May 2021
Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in California

Rank by total paid#353 of 561
Median peer was paid$222K
This provider vs. median0.3×

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$10K$20K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20201,280$24K
20211,281$38K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 75% 1,797 868 $46K
G2024 Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]) from an individual in a snf or by a laboratory on behalf of a hha, any specimen source 9.4% 307 284 $6K
87426 Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) 7.1% 167 166 $4K
G2023 Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source 4.5% 122 70 $3K
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 4.1% 168 94 $3K

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.

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Who's on the registration

Authorized officialASFAHA, SIHEEN (COO)