Lab
South Caribbean Laboratory Corp
South Caribbean Laboratory Corp was paid $500K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 40 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 14% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSOUTH CARIBBEAN LABORATORY CORP
PONCE, PR 00732
PONCE, PR 00732
33aNPI1609026293assigned 09/19/2008
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$500K
24GClaims44,669
24DCodes billed40
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#253 of 777
Median peer was paid$278K
This provider vs. median1.8×
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 | 7,293 | $60K | |
| 2019 | 7,453 | $66K | |
| 2020 | 766 | $7K | |
| 2021 | 6,414 | $87K | |
| 2022 | 7,973 | $125K | |
| 2023 | 7,357 | $81K | |
| 2024incomplete | 7,413 | $74K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 14% | 4,479 | 4,277 | $70K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 12% | 4,713 | 4,520 | $61K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 12% | 1,529 | 1,316 | $61K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 9.5% | 1,963 | 1,695 | $48K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 9.4% | 6,946 | 6,461 | $47K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 8.3% | 4,291 | 4,077 | $42K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 6.3% | 1,297 | 1,245 | $31K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 3.9% | 2,241 | 2,162 | $20K |
| 81001 | 3.2% | 5,618 | 5,319 | $16K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 2.9% | 1,787 | 1,714 | $15K |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 2.8% | 416 | 404 | $14K |
| 84439 | 2.3% | 1,426 | 1,350 | $12K |
28 more codes
| 86701 | 2.3% | 1,366 | $11K | |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 2.1% | 218 | $10K |
| 82607 | <1% | 310 | $4K | |
| 86592 | <1% | 1,048 | $4K | |
| 82043 | <1% | 864 | $4K | |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | <1% | 114 | $4K |
| 87088 | <1% | 492 | $4K | |
| 87276 | <1% | 275 | $3K | |
| 87275 | <1% | 275 | $3K | |
| 86738 | <1% | 249 | $3K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 760 | $2K |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 226 | $2K |
| 87811 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | <1% | 394 | $2K |
| 86328 | <1% | 80 | $1K | |
| 82274 | <1% | 99 | $1K | |
| 85730 | <1% | 185 | $977.81 | |
| 84153 | <1% | 65 | $867.47 | |
| 82947 | <1% | 219 | $793.82 | |
| 82570 | <1% | 175 | $754.41 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 176 | $613.98 | |
| 80050 | General health panel | <1% | 67 | $553.49 |
| 84436 | <1% | 85 | $516.80 | |
| 84479 | <1% | 28 | $148.82 | |
| 85651 | <1% | 25 | $112.92 | |
| G0328 | Colorectal cancer screening; fecal occult blood test, immunoassay, 1-3 simultaneous | <1% | 12 | $88.83 |
| 82270 | <1% | 13 | $42.41 | |
| 3044F | 0% | 52 | $0.00 | |
| 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 | 0% | 91 | $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 officialCOLON, CARLOS (OWNER)