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Cova Laboratories LLC

Cova Laboratories LLC was paid $454K by Medicaid between Dec 2022 and Jun 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 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 — 80% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoCOVA LABORATORIES LLC
RAMSEY, NJ 07446
33aNPI1679290357assigned 10/24/2022
28Total paid$454K
24GClaims8,415
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthDec 2022 – Jun 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in New Jersey

Rank by total paid#75 of 122
Median peer was paid$1.29M
This provider vs. median0.4×

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

$0$50K$100K$150K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2022374$16K
20237,395$391K
2024incomplete646$47K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 80% 5,800 4,295 $365K
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 8.8% 1,911 1,663 $40K
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 7.3% 336 331 $33K
80307 Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay 3.1% 310 309 $14K
87502 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid, influenza virus, for multiple types or subtypes, includes all targets <1% 58 57 $1K

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 officialPASQUALE, NADIA (LAB MANAGER)