Physician
Pathology Sciences Medical Group
Pathology Sciences Medical Group was paid $4.89M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 26 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 27% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoPATHOLOGY SCIENCES MEDICAL GROUP
CHICO, CA 95926
CHICO, CA 95926
33aNPI1497705537assigned 05/11/2006
33bProvider typeCytopathology Physician
28Total paid$4.89M
24GClaims161,787
24DCodes billed26
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Cytopathology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#5 of 69
Median peer was paid$50K
This provider vs. median97×
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 | 21,392 | $540K | |
| 2019 | 23,914 | $495K | |
| 2020 | 24,575 | $536K | |
| 2021 | 27,760 | $705K | |
| 2022 | 23,222 | $711K | |
| 2023 | 20,996 | $770K | |
| 2024incomplete | 19,928 | $1.13M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 27% | 26,125 | 25,204 | $1.33M |
| 88175 | Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal, any reporting system; collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer | 14% | 36,739 | 36,363 | $692K |
| 81514 | 9.2% | 2,227 | 2,185 | $451K | |
| 87624 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types | 7.8% | 14,621 | 14,493 | $382K |
| 88307 | 5.7% | 3,411 | 3,369 | $278K | |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 5.3% | 10,549 | 10,380 | $261K |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | 5.3% | 10,565 | 10,395 | $260K |
| 87801 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; amplified probe, multiple organisms | 5.0% | 6,882 | 6,755 | $244K |
| 88342 | 4.9% | 5,331 | 5,216 | $242K | |
| 87481 | 4.8% | 8,990 | 6,558 | $237K | |
| 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 | 3.4% | 2,284 | 2,240 | $168K |
| 88341 | 2.3% | 956 | 921 | $115K |
14 more codes
| 87661 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe | 1.8% | 3,855 | $87K |
| 88304 | 1.1% | 2,042 | $51K | |
| 99000 | <1% | 23,758 | $32K | |
| 88141 | <1% | 2,125 | $17K | |
| 88312 | <1% | 277 | $8K | |
| 88112 | <1% | 194 | $7K | |
| 88142 | <1% | 405 | $6K | |
| 87637 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and RSV | <1% | 41 | $6K |
| 88189 | <1% | 93 | $4K | |
| 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 | <1% | 173 | $4K |
| 88173 | <1% | 38 | $858.70 | |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | <1% | 12 | $496.32 |
| G0145 | Screening cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation, with screening by automated system and manual rescreening under physician supervision | <1% | 68 | $390.00 |
| 88300 | <1% | 26 | $207.58 |
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 officialWONG, LESTER (MANAGING PARTNER)