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University of Minnesota Physicians

University of Minnesota Physicians was paid $1.95M by Medicaid between Sep 2020 and Apr 2021, across 2 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 — 93% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PHYSICIANS
MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55415
33aNPI1467850206assigned 12/10/2014
28Total paid$1.95M
24GClaims69,973
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthSep 2020 – Apr 2021
Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Minnesota

Rank by total paid#15 of 69
Median peer was paid$48K
This provider vs. median40×

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.

Single-Code Concentration93% of spending on code U0003 with only 2 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
Box 24A · Dates of service

Paid by month

$0$200K$400K$600K2018201920202021202220232024
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
202040,605$1.28M
202129,368$672K
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 93% 57,413 18,657 $1.83M
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 6.5% 12,560 4,310 $127K

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 officialFERRIERI, PATRICIA (OUTREACH LABS MEDICAL DIRECTOR)