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Laboratorio Clinico Alturas INC.
Laboratorio Clinico Alturas INC. was paid $704K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 42 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 14% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLABORATORIO CLINICO ALTURAS INC.
VEGA BAJA, PR 00693
VEGA BAJA, PR 00693
33aNPI1801832654assigned 06/21/2006
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$704K
24GClaims66,544
24DCodes billed42
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#179 of 777
Median peer was paid$278K
This provider vs. median2.5×
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 | 5,765 | $47K | |
| 2019 | 5,363 | $44K | |
| 2020 | 7,521 | $65K | |
| 2021 | 12,171 | $143K | |
| 2022 | 11,872 | $155K | |
| 2023 | 11,785 | $123K | |
| 2024incomplete | 12,067 | $127K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 14% | 6,583 | 6,305 | $100K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 12% | 2,015 | 1,849 | $82K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 11% | 6,237 | 5,955 | $78K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 9.5% | 9,565 | 8,873 | $67K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 9.4% | 6,952 | 6,564 | $66K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 8.4% | 2,190 | 2,084 | $59K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 6.1% | 1,808 | 1,635 | $43K |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 4.6% | 3,591 | 3,424 | $33K |
| 81000 | 3.2% | 7,534 | 7,162 | $22K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | 2.4% | 6,667 | 6,147 | $17K |
| 82274 | 2.1% | 990 | 927 | $15K | |
| 86738 | 1.9% | 1,022 | 962 | $13K |
30 more codes
| 87276 | 1.6% | 873 | $11K | |
| 87275 | 1.5% | 873 | $11K | |
| 84153 | 1.4% | 571 | $10K | |
| 82043 | 1.2% | 1,503 | $9K | |
| 86703 | 1.1% | 706 | $8K | |
| 87088 | 1.1% | 1,008 | $8K | |
| 84439 | <1% | 727 | $7K | |
| 87899 | <1% | 479 | $5K | |
| 82607 | <1% | 349 | $5K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 553 | $4K |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | <1% | 140 | $4K |
| 84436 | <1% | 614 | $4K | |
| U0001 | Cdc 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-ncov) real-time rt-pcr diagnostic panel | <1% | 98 | $3K |
| 84479 | <1% | 618 | $3K | |
| 82570 | <1% | 649 | $3K | |
| 86328 | <1% | 163 | $3K | |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | <1% | 88 | $3K |
| 80074 | <1% | 42 | $2K | |
| 86592 | <1% | 458 | $2K | |
| 86769 | <1% | 54 | $2K | |
| 82270 | <1% | 376 | $1K | |
| 86790 | <1% | 79 | $833.38 | |
| 85651 | <1% | 188 | $625.52 | |
| 80050 | General health panel | <1% | 44 | $430.58 |
| 82042 | <1% | 62 | $325.76 | |
| 80069 | <1% | 20 | $173.50 | |
| 86140 | <1% | 14 | $63.30 | |
| 86900 | <1% | 14 | $55.36 | |
| 86901 | <1% | 14 | $55.36 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 13 | $45.37 |
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 officialRIVERA, ORLANDO (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Centro Medico Del Turabo INC | Caguas, PR | $10.83M |
| Centro Medico Del Turabo INC | Caguas, PR | $1.27M |
| Laboratorio Clinico Y Bacteriologico Ciales INC | Ciales, PR | $137K |
| DR. Orlando H. Rivera, DPM, P.A. | Houston, TX | $41K |
| Centro Medico Del Turabo INC | Caguas, PR | $2K |
| Centro Medico Del Turabo INC | Humacao, PR | $1K |
| Centro Medico Del Turabo INC | Bayamon, PR | $55.84 |
| Centro Medico Del Turabo INC | Caguas, PR | $0.00 |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.