Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health

Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health was paid $838K by Medicaid between Mar 2020 and Aug 2022, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 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 — 89% of everything it billed.

Compared with peers

Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Louisiana

Rank by total paid#29 of 66

Median peer was paid$253K

This provider vs. median3.3×

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
2020	41,369	$368K
2021	27,864	$435K
2022	2,253	$35K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
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	89%	55,267	20,630	$746K
U0005	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, cdc or non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies, completed within 2 calendar days from date of specimen collection (list separately in addition to either hcpcs code u0003 or u0004) as described by cms-2020-01-r2	11%	15,028	6,209	$88K
U0002	2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc	<1%	1,191	1,067	$3K

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 officialCROTWELL, DOROTHY (PROGRAM MANAGER)

Same official

Other billing entities under CROTWELL, DOROTHY

Full network →

Provider	Location	Paid
Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health	Baton Rouge, LA	$37.92M
Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health	New Orleans, LA	$3.67M
Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health	Baton Rouge, LA	$2.66M
Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health	New Orleans, LA	$2.55M
Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health	New Orleans, LA	$1.51M
Louisiana Department of Health - Office of Public Health	New Orleans, LA	$594K
Office of Public Health -Genetics Diseases Program	New Orleans, LA	$44K

Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.