Lab
Metropolitan Laboratory Services INC
Metropolitan Laboratory Services INC was paid $63K by Medicaid between Jan 2020 and Feb 2024, across 31 billing codes. Its largest line is 87798, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; not otherwise specified, amplified probe, each organism — 48% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMETROPOLITAN LABORATORY SERVICES INC
FAIRFAX, VA 22033
FAIRFAX, VA 22033
33aNPI1750923520assigned 10/14/2019
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$63K
24GClaims6,844
24DCodes billed31
24AFirst – last monthJan 2020 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Virginia
Rank by total paid#36 of 78
Median peer was paid$37K
This provider vs. median1.7×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3,074 | $18K | |
| 2021 | 548 | $3K | |
| 2023 | 2,706 | $34K | |
| 2024incomplete | 516 | $8K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87798 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; not otherwise specified, amplified probe, each organism | 48% | 411 | 287 | $31K |
| U0004 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r | 27% | 1,574 | 642 | $17K |
| 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 | 5.8% | 127 | 76 | $4K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 5.2% | 1,456 | 583 | $3K |
| 87481 | 4.4% | 264 | 206 | $3K | |
| 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 | 1.4% | 57 | 32 | $860.92 |
| 87651 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe | 1.2% | 330 | 260 | $762.92 |
| 87500 | 1.0% | 241 | 198 | $662.50 | |
| 87641 | 1.0% | 379 | 277 | $652.68 | |
| 87653 | 1.0% | 348 | 267 | $652.68 | |
| 87661 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe | <1% | 245 | 197 | $624.61 |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | <1% | 220 | 183 | $482.71 |
19 more codes
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | <1% | 197 | $412.53 |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 122 | $234.56 |
| 87556 | <1% | 37 | $220.62 | |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | <1% | 170 | $190.08 |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 183 | $170.94 |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | <1% | 14 | $96.48 |
| 87088 | <1% | 141 | $95.47 | |
| 85027 | <1% | 83 | $60.81 | |
| 81001 | <1% | 109 | $3.60 | |
| 87631 | 0% | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 86631 | 0% | 12 | $0.00 | |
| 88164 | 0% | 16 | $0.00 | |
| 87541 | 0% | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 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 | 0% | 16 | $0.00 |
| 87486 | 0% | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 87581 | 0% | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 87498 | 0% | 12 | $0.00 | |
| 87496 | 0% | 12 | $0.00 | |
| 87532 | 0% | 12 | $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 officialGOLSTON, CHRISTAL (CEO)