Supplier
Merit Pharmacy INC
Merit Pharmacy INC was paid $6K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Jan 2024, across 12 billing codes. Its largest line is A4253, Blood glucose test or reagent strips for home blood glucose monitor, per 50 strips — 92% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoMERIT PHARMACY INC
LAUDERDALE LAKES, FL 33313
LAUDERDALE LAKES, FL 33313
33aNPI1861507287assigned 08/19/2006
33bProvider typePharmacy
28Total paid$6K
24GClaims3,338
24DCodes billed12
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Jan 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Pharmacy providers in Florida
Rank by total paid#12 of 77
Median peer was paid$18.84
This provider vs. median302×
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 | 401 | $1K | |
| 2019 | 752 | $2K | |
| 2020 | 608 | $1K | |
| 2021 | 941 | $720.15 | |
| 2022 | 376 | $338.22 | |
| 2023 | 242 | $200.28 | |
| 2024incomplete | 18 | $50.29 |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A4253 | Blood glucose test or reagent strips for home blood glucose monitor, per 50 strips | 92% | 1,779 | 1,217 | $5K |
| A4259 | Lancets, per box of 100 | 7.8% | 740 | 515 | $445.31 |
| 0003A | 0% | 201 | 150 | $0.00 | |
| 0013A | 0% | 17 | 14 | $0.00 | |
| 0004A | 0% | 209 | 158 | $0.00 | |
| 91320 | 0% | 41 | 22 | $0.00 | |
| 0124A | 0% | 12 | 12 | $0.00 | |
| G0008 | Administration of influenza virus vaccine | 0% | 42 | 23 | $0.00 |
| 0064A | 0% | 143 | 110 | $0.00 | |
| 90674 | 0% | 42 | 23 | $0.00 | |
| K1034 | Provision of covid-19 test, nonprescription self-administered and self-collected use, fda approved, authorized or cleared, one test count | 0% | 71 | 55 | $0.00 |
| 90480 | 0% | 41 | 22 | $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 officialMAKRIDES, CHRISTOS (PHARMACIST OWNER)