Lab
Pathologists Medical Laboratory, P.A.
Pathologists Medical Laboratory, P.A. was paid $1.86M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 28% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPATHOLOGISTS MEDICAL LABORATORY, P.A.
ASHEVILLE, NC 28803
ASHEVILLE, NC 28803
33aNPI1477519148assigned 04/21/2006
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$1.86M
24GClaims95,447
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#39 of 128
Median peer was paid$268K
This provider vs. median6.9×
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
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
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 7,665 | $218K | |
| 2019 | 7,792 | $183K | |
| 2020 | 19,320 | $260K | |
| 2021 | 15,142 | $304K | |
| 2022 | 13,947 | $360K | |
| 2023 | 15,505 | $306K | |
| 2024incomplete | 16,076 | $229K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 28% | 10,475 | 8,635 | $514K |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 17% | 19,278 | 10,453 | $311K |
| 88175 | Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal, any reporting system; collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer | 16% | 17,170 | 10,813 | $303K |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | 15% | 19,316 | 10,450 | $280K |
| 87624 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types | 8.8% | 10,526 | 6,191 | $164K |
| 87661 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe | 6.2% | 9,817 | 5,020 | $115K |
| 88141 | 4.7% | 6,531 | 4,459 | $87K | |
| 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 | 2.9% | 894 | 625 | $54K |
| 87798 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; not otherwise specified, amplified probe, each organism | 1.4% | 1,304 | 1,113 | $26K |
| 88304 | <1% | 81 | 66 | $3K | |
| 87801 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; amplified probe, multiple organisms | <1% | 39 | 21 | $1K |
| 88342 | <1% | 16 | 16 | $666.30 |
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 officialNEAL, STACEY (MD)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Mountain Area Pathology PA | Asheville, NC | $1.16M |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.