Lab
Meridian Laboratory Corp
Meridian Laboratory Corp was paid $555K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 47 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 12% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERIDIAN LABORATORY CORP
CHARLOTTE, NC 28273
CHARLOTTE, NC 28273
33aNPI1477556876assigned 05/31/2005
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$555K
24GClaims113,199
24DCodes billed47
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in North Carolina
Rank by total paid#48 of 128
Median peer was paid$268K
This provider vs. median2.1×
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 | 12,185 | $69K | |
| 2019 | 20,598 | $121K | |
| 2020 | 31,987 | $141K | |
| 2021 | 15,616 | $74K | |
| 2022 | 10,229 | $43K | |
| 2023 | 12,296 | $56K | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,288 | $52K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 12% | 5,707 | 4,957 | $68K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 11% | 10,694 | 8,473 | $61K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 11% | 11,212 | 8,218 | $58K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 10% | 5,818 | 5,070 | $57K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 7.9% | 6,697 | 5,807 | $44K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | 7.1% | 27,848 | 16,843 | $39K |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 6.1% | 7,671 | 5,008 | $34K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 5.5% | 1,583 | 1,383 | $30K |
| 82607 | 4.2% | 2,076 | 1,841 | $23K | |
| 85027 | 4.0% | 6,052 | 4,547 | $22K | |
| 82652 | 3.6% | 1,248 | 925 | $20K | |
| 80164 | 3.0% | 1,702 | 1,465 | $17K |
35 more codes
| 82947 | 2.5% | 6,357 | $14K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | 1.8% | 2,200 | $10K |
| 87389 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies | 1.7% | 762 | $10K |
| 83735 | 1.3% | 1,679 | $7K | |
| 87186 | 1.2% | 1,738 | $7K | |
| 86803 | <1% | 830 | $5K | |
| 81001 | <1% | 2,816 | $5K | |
| 82140 | <1% | 501 | $5K | |
| 87077 | <1% | 1,248 | $4K | |
| 85610 | <1% | 2,280 | $4K | |
| 83880 | <1% | 178 | $2K | |
| 82728 | <1% | 296 | $1K | |
| 86140 | <1% | 322 | $827.03 | |
| 84439 | <1% | 92 | $626.84 | |
| 84153 | <1% | 63 | $626.36 | |
| 84466 | <1% | 89 | $608.13 | |
| 83540 | <1% | 175 | $510.26 | |
| 83970 | <1% | 15 | $462.40 | |
| 80177 | <1% | 54 | $457.31 | |
| 85379 | <1% | 139 | $431.37 | |
| 87340 | <1% | 198 | $391.74 | |
| 86706 | <1% | 228 | $336.81 | |
| 80076 | <1% | 61 | $331.89 | |
| 84134 | <1% | 15 | $126.24 | |
| 82746 | <1% | 23 | $111.70 | |
| 85652 | <1% | 61 | $106.16 | |
| 87088 | <1% | 15 | $82.15 | |
| P9603 | Travel allowance one way in connection with medically necessary laboratory specimen collection drawn from home bound or nursing home bound patient; prorated miles actually travelled | <1% | 2,089 | $63.98 |
| 84550 | <1% | 27 | $51.31 | |
| 85018 | <1% | 224 | $26.10 | |
| 80178 | <1% | 19 | $8.24 | |
| 85014 | <1% | 17 | $2.93 | |
| 84460 | 0% | 21 | $0.00 | |
| 1100 | 0% | 35 | $0.00 | |
| 84479 | 0% | 24 | $0.00 |
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 officialSADLER, MARGIE (EXECUTIVE VP OPERATIONS)