Laboratory Corporation of America
Laboratory Corporation of America was paid $11.67M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 46 billing codes. Its largest line is 87491, Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe — 27% of everything it billed.
SAN ANTONIO, TX 78233
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Texas
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 157,681 | $3.28M | |
| 2019 | 138,817 | $2.92M | |
| 2020 | 199,149 | $4.13M | |
| 2021 | 68,187 | $1.32M | |
| 2022 | 1,097 | $11K | |
| 2023 | 1,993 | $8K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,725 | $4K |
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 27% | 139,008 | 125,331 | $3.19M |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | 27% | 138,413 | 124,672 | $3.18M |
| 87661 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe | 19% | 92,944 | 81,951 | $2.17M |
| 88175 | Cytopathology, cervical or vaginal, any reporting system; collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer | 12% | 82,768 | 74,234 | $1.37M |
| 87624 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types | 8.7% | 46,113 | 41,302 | $1.01M |
| 88141 | 1.7% | 13,448 | 12,888 | $199K | |
| 88142 | 1.6% | 13,255 | 12,341 | $187K | |
| 87625 | <1% | 2,734 | 2,419 | $68K | |
| 87389 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies | <1% | 4,240 | 3,953 | $59K |
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | <1% | 1,102 | 1,010 | $46K |
| 87150 | <1% | 2,029 | 1,957 | $40K | |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 6,231 | 5,749 | $31K |
34 more codes
| 87081 | <1% | 3,296 | $13K | |
| 86696 | <1% | 901 | $12K | |
| 86592 | <1% | 4,229 | $11K | |
| 80074 | <1% | 466 | $9K | |
| 86803 | <1% | 795 | $7K | |
| 87088 | <1% | 1,339 | $7K | |
| 82247 | <1% | 2,050 | $6K | |
| 87529 | <1% | 286 | $6K | |
| 82248 | <1% | 2,023 | $6K | |
| U0003 | 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, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r | <1% | 102 | $6K |
| 86695 | <1% | 683 | $6K | |
| 87186 | <1% | 907 | $5K | |
| 80307 | Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay | <1% | 86 | $4K |
| 87340 | <1% | 618 | $4K | |
| 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% | 16 | $3K |
| 87077 | <1% | 257 | $1K | |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | <1% | 118 | $1K |
| G0145 | Screening cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation, with screening by automated system and manual rescreening under physician supervision | <1% | 4,871 | $582.17 |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | <1% | 73 | $425.06 |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | <1% | 150 | $415.32 |
| 86694 | <1% | 36 | $374.50 | |
| 80061 | Lipid panel | <1% | 40 | $328.04 |
| 86780 | <1% | 26 | $319.45 | |
| 88112 | <1% | 28 | $222.95 | |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | <1% | 237 | $174.09 |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | <1% | 33 | $137.63 |
| 86706 | <1% | 15 | $115.04 | |
| G0123 | Screening cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation, screening by cytotechnologist under physician supervision | <1% | 1,210 | $59.53 |
| 85014 | <1% | 23 | $50.83 | |
| 85018 | <1% | 23 | $50.83 | |
| 36416 | <1% | 1,048 | $35.00 | |
| 87210 | <1% | 12 | $23.90 | |
| G0124 | Screening cytopathology, cervical or vaginal (any reporting system), collected in preservative fluid, automated thin layer preparation, requiring interpretation by physician | 0% | 337 | $0.00 |
| 99199 | Unlisted special service, procedure or report | 0% | 30 | $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.
Who's on the registration
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.