Lab
Lifebrite Laboratories, LLC
Lifebrite Laboratories, LLC was paid $9.38M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2023, across 105 billing codes. Its largest line is G0483, Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 22 or more drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed — 24% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLIFEBRITE LABORATORIES, LLC
BROOKHAVEN, GA 30329
BROOKHAVEN, GA 30329
33aNPI1609273317assigned 11/24/2014
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$9.38M
24GClaims390,027
24DCodes billed105
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Georgia
Rank by total paid#6 of 66
Median peer was paid$178K
This provider vs. median53×
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 | 153,599 | $2.58M | |
| 2019 | 73,831 | $2.41M | |
| 2020 | 78,403 | $2.20M | |
| 2021 | 32,331 | $625K | |
| 2022 | 30,747 | $858K | |
| 2023 | 21,116 | $703K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G0483 | Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 22 or more drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed | 24% | 39,234 | 28,010 | $2.25M |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | 18% | 49,657 | 31,971 | $1.72M |
| G0482 | Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 15-21 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed | 17% | 17,897 | 11,545 | $1.63M |
| 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 | 13% | 16,838 | 5,571 | $1.18M |
| G0481 | Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 8-14 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed | 5.7% | 15,928 | 11,135 | $538K |
| 82542 | 3.3% | 17,475 | 5,240 | $310K | |
| 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 | 2.3% | 10,304 | 2,839 | $214K |
| G0480 | Drug test(s), definitive, utilizing (1) drug identification methods able to identify individual drugs and distinguish between structural isomers (but not necessarily stereoisomers), including, but not limited to gc/ms (any type, single or tandem) and lc/ms (any type, single or tandem and excluding immunoassays (e.g., ia, eia, elisa, emit, fpia) and enzymatic methods (e.g., alcohol dehydrogenase)), (2) stable isotope or other universally recognized internal standards in all samples (e.g., to control for matrix effects, interferences and variations in signal strength), and (3) method or drug-specific calibration and matrix-matched quality control material (e.g., to control for instrument variations and mass spectral drift); qualitative or quantitative, all sources, includes specimen validity testing, per day; 1-7 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed | 2.1% | 4,577 | 3,790 | $196K |
| 80184 | 1.1% | 6,745 | 4,129 | $101K | |
| 80159 | 1.0% | 5,771 | 5,242 | $98K | |
| 80173 | <1% | 5,779 | 5,250 | $80K | |
| 80162 | <1% | 5,785 | 5,249 | $76K |
93 more codes
| 80157 | <1% | 5,776 | $73K | |
| 80177 | <1% | 5,770 | $72K | |
| 84703 | <1% | 8,612 | $68K | |
| 80201 | <1% | 5,782 | $67K | |
| 80156 | <1% | 4,490 | $65K | |
| 80347 | <1% | 5,131 | $42K | |
| 83789 | <1% | 6,910 | $36K | |
| 80364 | <1% | 3,768 | $35K | |
| 80370 | <1% | 5,303 | $25K | |
| 80321 | <1% | 5,182 | $24K | |
| 80351 | <1% | 4,681 | $23K | |
| 80357 | <1% | 4,994 | $22K | |
| 80368 | <1% | 5,241 | $22K | |
| 80367 | <1% | 5,355 | $21K | |
| 80359 | <1% | 5,008 | $20K | |
| 80355 | <1% | 4,891 | $20K | |
| 80373 | <1% | 5,477 | $19K | |
| 80356 | <1% | 5,217 | $19K | |
| 80366 | <1% | 4,815 | $19K | |
| 80348 | <1% | 5,132 | $18K | |
| 80336 | <1% | 3,296 | $18K | |
| 80333 | <1% | 3,288 | $17K | |
| 80365 | <1% | 5,118 | $16K | |
| 80349 | <1% | 4,470 | $15K | |
| 80345 | <1% | 5,071 | $15K | |
| 80372 | <1% | 4,901 | $14K | |
| 80324 | <1% | 5,215 | $14K | |
| 87811 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | <1% | 394 | $14K |
| 80353 | <1% | 5,013 | $13K | |
| 80358 | <1% | 5,220 | $13K | |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 2,357 | $11K |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | <1% | 1,426 | $10K |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | <1% | 180 | $9K |
| 80332 | <1% | 1,304 | $8K | |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 2,097 | $7K |
| 80337 | <1% | 1,147 | $6K | |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | <1% | 1,308 | $6K |
| 87798 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; not otherwise specified, amplified probe, each organism | <1% | 259 | $6K |
| 87633 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, respiratory virus, 12-25 targets | <1% | 194 | $6K |
| 80074 | <1% | 1,105 | $4K | |
| 84481 | <1% | 1,371 | $4K | |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 1,379 | $4K |
| 80363 | <1% | 1,453 | $3K | |
| 82607 | <1% | 1,168 | $3K | |
| 83970 | <1% | 850 | $3K | |
| 84439 | <1% | 1,533 | $3K | |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | <1% | 942 | $3K |
| 86703 | <1% | 1,129 | $2K | |
| 84146 | <1% | 327 | $2K | |
| 87486 | <1% | 254 | $2K | |
| 87581 | <1% | 254 | $2K | |
| 84403 | <1% | 869 | $2K | |
| 82670 | <1% | 813 | $2K | |
| 80050 | General health panel | <1% | 619 | $2K |
| 84144 | <1% | 839 | $1K | |
| 84681 | <1% | 838 | $1K | |
| 83002 | <1% | 835 | $1K | |
| 83001 | <1% | 827 | $1K | |
| 86376 | <1% | 357 | $1K | |
| 83992 | <1% | 4,424 | $1K | |
| 82533 | <1% | 822 | $1K | |
| 82746 | <1% | 862 | $1K | |
| 83525 | <1% | 936 | $938.74 | |
| 82610 | <1% | 831 | $733.29 | |
| 83735 | <1% | 1,064 | $724.89 | |
| 80164 | <1% | 67 | $645.56 | |
| 82570 | <1% | 709 | $584.26 | |
| 82728 | <1% | 845 | $563.03 | |
| 84466 | <1% | 845 | $492.91 | |
| 81003 | <1% | 836 | $491.20 | |
| 82977 | <1% | 837 | $430.06 | |
| 83540 | <1% | 876 | $331.71 | |
| 84550 | <1% | 855 | $312.19 | |
| 80346 | <1% | 34 | $298.02 | |
| 83986 | <1% | 725 | $205.34 | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 262 | $173.88 |
| 80323 | <1% | 36 | $166.13 | |
| 84480 | <1% | 121 | $159.03 | |
| 87631 | <1% | 12 | $95.04 | |
| 80076 | <1% | 27 | $80.21 | |
| 82947 | <1% | 24 | $61.56 | |
| 84436 | <1% | 124 | $57.44 | |
| 84450 | <1% | 18 | $47.32 | |
| 84460 | <1% | 18 | $39.27 | |
| 84075 | <1% | 15 | $31.22 | |
| 83090 | <1% | 41 | $5.83 | |
| 84153 | <1% | 94 | $0.94 | |
| 81227 | 0% | 15 | $0.00 | |
| 81225 | 0% | 15 | $0.00 | |
| 81226 | 0% | 15 | $0.00 | |
| 0100U | 0% | 48 | $0.00 | |
| 81408 | 0% | 15 | $0.00 | |
| 81291 | 0% | 14 | $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 officialFLETCHER, CHRISTIAN (CEO)
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