Lab
Laboratorio Clinico Las Mercedes INC
Laboratorio Clinico Las Mercedes INC was paid $869K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 44 billing codes. Its largest line is 87426, Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) — 17% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLABORATORIO CLINICO LAS MERCEDES INC
QUEBRADILLAS, PR 00678
QUEBRADILLAS, PR 00678
33aNPI1710283411assigned 01/28/2011
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$869K
24GClaims76,728
24DCodes billed44
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#145 of 777
Median peer was paid$278K
This provider vs. median3.1×
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 | 8,053 | $65K | |
| 2019 | 5,904 | $46K | |
| 2020 | 7,337 | $68K | |
| 2021 | 16,465 | $238K | |
| 2022 | 15,473 | $241K | |
| 2023 | 8,067 | $52K | |
| 2024incomplete | 15,429 | $159K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 17% | 3,893 | 3,495 | $152K |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 11% | 6,559 | 6,251 | $95K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 10% | 3,822 | 3,406 | $90K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 8.7% | 6,302 | 6,039 | $75K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 7.7% | 9,919 | 9,078 | $67K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 7.5% | 7,120 | 6,600 | $65K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 7.1% | 2,472 | 2,352 | $62K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 4.5% | 4,552 | 4,334 | $39K |
| 82274 | 3.3% | 2,051 | 1,980 | $29K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | 2.6% | 8,719 | 7,840 | $23K |
| 81000 | 2.4% | 7,363 | 7,027 | $21K | |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 1.8% | 1,382 | 931 | $16K |
32 more codes
| 86328 | 1.8% | 633 | $16K | |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 1.7% | 290 | $14K |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | 1.6% | 294 | $14K |
| 82607 | 1.6% | 1,055 | $14K | |
| 86738 | 1.5% | 1,109 | $13K | |
| 82043 | 1.3% | 2,130 | $12K | |
| 84439 | 1.3% | 1,320 | $11K | |
| 84153 | <1% | 572 | $9K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 766 | $6K |
| 87088 | <1% | 583 | $4K | |
| 86701 | <1% | 440 | $4K | |
| 84479 | <1% | 602 | $3K | |
| 84436 | <1% | 471 | $3K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 300 | $2K |
| 80074 | <1% | 51 | $2K | |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | <1% | 65 | $2K |
| 82378 | <1% | 100 | $1K | |
| 87276 | <1% | 216 | $1K | |
| 87275 | <1% | 218 | $1K | |
| 82570 | <1% | 265 | $1K | |
| 80050 | General health panel | <1% | 82 | $799.74 |
| 85651 | <1% | 245 | $768.71 | |
| 86592 | <1% | 209 | $732.08 | |
| 81001 | <1% | 237 | $647.02 | |
| 82540 | <1% | 116 | $526.98 | |
| 83655 | <1% | 39 | $514.41 | |
| 87186 | <1% | 44 | $347.47 | |
| 86803 | <1% | 31 | $266.75 | |
| 80076 | <1% | 26 | $193.87 | |
| 86039 | <1% | 13 | $145.92 | |
| 86140 | <1% | 28 | $123.21 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 24 | $92.86 |
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 officialMERCADO, GLORIA (OWNER)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Gloria M Mercado Jimenez | Quebradillas, PR | $8K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.