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Gold Coast Diagnostics, LLC

Gold Coast Diagnostics, LLC was paid $561K by Medicaid between Mar 2021 and Nov 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is 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 — 72% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoGOLD COAST DIAGNOSTICS, LLC
FOREST PARK, GA 30297
33aNPI1841807849assigned 09/24/2020
28Total paid$561K
24GClaims7,519
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthMar 2021 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Georgia

Rank by total paid#29 of 66
Median peer was paid$178K
This provider vs. median3.2×

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

$0$25K$50K$75K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
2021763$28K
20232,445$197K
2024incomplete4,311$336K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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 72% 2,365 885 $406K
80307 Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay 19% 3,000 1,359 $106K
87636 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 and influenza virus types A and B 6.8% 621 453 $38K
G0480 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; 1-7 drug class(es), including metabolite(s) if performed <1% 686 553 $5K
87798 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; not otherwise specified, amplified probe, each organism <1% 98 81 $3K
87481 <1% 98 81 $1K
87651 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Streptococcus, group A, amplified probe <1% 98 81 $252.01
87641 <1% 98 81 $163.33
87500 <1% 104 86 $163.33
87653 <1% 104 86 $162.18
87640 <1% 104 86 $135.26
81003 <1% 143 136 $40.34

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 officialMCKINNON, KEVIN (PRESIDENT AND CEO)