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Laboratorio Cardona Lamela, INC.
Laboratorio Cardona Lamela, INC. was paid $473K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 47 billing codes. Its largest line is 84443, Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) — 13% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoLABORATORIO CARDONA LAMELA, INC.
ISABELA, PR 00662
ISABELA, PR 00662
33aNPI1811937287assigned 06/07/2006
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$473K
24GClaims41,233
24DCodes billed47
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#267 of 777
Median peer was paid$278K
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 12,386 | $114K | |
| 2019 | 1,455 | $9K | |
| 2020 | 1,491 | $16K | |
| 2021 | 2,537 | $46K | |
| 2022 | 2,900 | $46K | |
| 2023 | 8,556 | $103K | |
| 2024incomplete | 11,908 | $138K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 13% | 3,911 | 3,751 | $62K |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 12% | 4,491 | 4,290 | $57K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 11% | 7,102 | 6,445 | $53K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 11% | 1,219 | 1,123 | $50K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 9.5% | 4,535 | 4,254 | $45K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 5.5% | 1,066 | 934 | $26K |
| 82306 | Vitamin D; 25 hydroxy, includes fraction(s), if performed | 5.5% | 897 | 856 | $26K |
| 82274 | 4.2% | 1,272 | 1,211 | $20K | |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 4.1% | 2,109 | 2,012 | $19K |
| 81000 | 3.2% | 4,957 | 4,593 | $15K | |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | 2.3% | 216 | 199 | $11K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 2.2% | 848 | 407 | $10K |
35 more codes
| 87389 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies | 1.9% | 379 | $9K |
| 84153 | 1.9% | 486 | $9K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | 1.6% | 890 | $8K |
| 82043 | 1.4% | 1,202 | $7K | |
| 82607 | <1% | 302 | $5K | |
| 84439 | <1% | 423 | $4K | |
| 87276 | <1% | 334 | $4K | |
| 87275 | <1% | 330 | $4K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 407 | $3K |
| 87088 | <1% | 389 | $3K | |
| 80074 | <1% | 59 | $3K | |
| 86738 | <1% | 182 | $3K | |
| 82570 | <1% | 381 | $2K | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 553 | $2K |
| 85651 | <1% | 486 | $2K | |
| 86701 | <1% | 183 | $2K | |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | <1% | 34 | $1K |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | <1% | 34 | $1K |
| 85730 | <1% | 216 | $1K | |
| 86328 | <1% | 60 | $1K | |
| 82947 | <1% | 267 | $900.40 | |
| 85610 | <1% | 234 | $865.39 | |
| 85027 | <1% | 169 | $768.60 | |
| 84436 | <1% | 99 | $694.66 | |
| 86140 | <1% | 120 | $627.87 | |
| 87186 | <1% | 59 | $611.60 | |
| 82042 | <1% | 74 | $397.52 | |
| 86803 | <1% | 24 | $364.15 | |
| 82575 | <1% | 36 | $323.30 | |
| 84479 | <1% | 43 | $214.45 | |
| 83655 | <1% | 12 | $143.44 | |
| 82950 | <1% | 33 | $130.46 | |
| 82565 | <1% | 13 | $71.85 | |
| 84520 | <1% | 13 | $55.37 | |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | 0% | 84 | $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 officialCARDONA, ETHEL (DIRECTOR)