Lab
SML LLC
SML LLC was paid $87K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 52 billing codes. Its largest line is 85025, Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count — 18% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSML LLC
HOUSTON, TX 77027
HOUSTON, TX 77027
33aNPI1780730606assigned 01/25/2007
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$87K
24GClaims146,214
24DCodes billed52
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#156 of 436
Median peer was paid$17K
This provider vs. median5.1×
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 | 3,226 | $0.00 | |
| 2019 | 14,192 | $819.77 | |
| 2020 | 13,577 | $8K | |
| 2021 | 20,406 | $9K | |
| 2022 | 37,770 | $20K | |
| 2023 | 33,356 | $25K | |
| 2024incomplete | 23,687 | $24K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 18% | 22,172 | 16,238 | $16K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 11% | 11,606 | 9,744 | $10K |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 10% | 11,672 | 8,004 | $9K |
| 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 | 9.4% | 849 | 576 | $8K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 6.1% | 6,071 | 5,502 | $5K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 6.1% | 1,982 | 1,822 | $5K |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 5.6% | 5,663 | 5,205 | $5K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 5.3% | 4,583 | 4,223 | $5K |
| 80164 | 3.6% | 1,547 | 1,346 | $3K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | 3.3% | 3,985 | 3,571 | $3K |
| 80177 | 3.1% | 992 | 801 | $3K | |
| 80050 | General health panel | 2.3% | 106 | 102 | $2K |
40 more codes
| 82140 | 2.3% | 729 | $2K | |
| 87186 | 2.1% | 2,587 | $2K | |
| 87088 | 1.7% | 2,569 | $2K | |
| 84134 | 1.5% | 852 | $1K | |
| 83880 | 1.4% | 317 | $1K | |
| 83735 | 1.2% | 2,889 | $1K | |
| 80069 | 1.1% | 744 | $1K | |
| 81001 | 1.1% | 3,672 | $976.34 | |
| 82607 | <1% | 752 | $864.50 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 1,227 | $727.65 | |
| 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 | <1% | 180 | $221.25 |
| 84100 | <1% | 1,245 | $193.55 | |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | <1% | 208 | $108.62 |
| 85651 | <1% | 103 | $96.30 | |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | <1% | 36 | $83.78 |
| 86140 | <1% | 99 | $71.78 | |
| 84436 | <1% | 166 | $64.10 | |
| 82746 | <1% | 97 | $60.24 | |
| 80185 | <1% | 29 | $58.35 | |
| 81003 | <1% | 414 | $55.78 | |
| 84439 | <1% | 89 | $51.60 | |
| 84153 | <1% | 15 | $37.30 | |
| 84550 | <1% | 100 | $34.83 | |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | <1% | 16 | $34.25 |
| 82550 | <1% | 18 | $26.57 | |
| 83540 | <1% | 92 | $26.49 | |
| 82977 | <1% | 15 | $18.15 | |
| 83615 | <1% | 20 | $15.21 | |
| 82728 | <1% | 31 | $10.88 | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 6,195 | $3.51 |
| 83550 | <1% | 17 | $3.41 | |
| 81015 | <1% | 164 | $3.16 | |
| 84479 | <1% | 31 | $2.52 | |
| G0471 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture or urine sample by catheterization from an individual in a skilled nursing facility (snf) or by a laboratory on behalf of a home health agency (hha) | 0% | 21,788 | $0.00 |
| P9603 | Travel allowance one way in connection with medically necessary laboratory specimen collection drawn from home bound or nursing home bound patient; prorated miles actually travelled | 0% | 25,083 | $0.00 |
| 85027 | 0% | 99 | $0.00 | |
| 86593 | 0% | 44 | $0.00 | |
| 85009 | 0% | 97 | $0.00 | |
| 86592 | 0% | 22 | $0.00 | |
| P9604 | Travel allowance one way in connection with medically necessary laboratory specimen collection drawn from home bound or nursing home bound patient; prorated trip charge | 0% | 2,135 | $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 officialDRUMMOND, RICHARD (TECHNICAL DIRECTOR)