Lab
Friends Medical Laboratory INC.
Friends Medical Laboratory INC. was paid $3.07M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Sep 2023, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 80307, Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay — 68% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoFRIENDS MEDICAL LABORATORY INC.
BALTIMORE, MD 21227
BALTIMORE, MD 21227
33aNPI1700825114assigned 06/05/2006
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$3.07M
24GClaims49,007
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Sep 2023
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Maryland
Rank by total paid#23 of 93
Median peer was paid$430K
This provider vs. median7.1×
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 | 17,853 | $1.18M | |
| 2019 | 12,162 | $747K | |
| 2020 | 4,313 | $255K | |
| 2021 | 6,691 | $409K | |
| 2022 | 5,533 | $322K | |
| 2023 | 2,455 | $154K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | 68% | 39,447 | 22,654 | $2.09M |
| 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 | 18% | 6,231 | 4,196 | $562K |
| 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 | 14% | 3,329 | 2,394 | $415K |
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 officialSHIPLET, MYRON (VICE PRESIDENT)