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Watson, Carolyn

Watson, Carolyn was paid $22K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Apr 2023, across 38 billing codes. Its largest line is 80053, Comprehensive metabolic panel — 37% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoWATSON, CAROLYN
PADUCAH, KY 42003
33aNPI1871572602assigned 01/11/2006
28Total paid$22K
24GClaims14,214
24DCodes billed38
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Apr 2023
Compared with peers

Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in Kentucky

Rank by total paid#18 of 27
Median peer was paid$139K
This provider vs. median0.2×

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$1.0K$2.0K2018201920202021202220232024
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
201810,404$2K
2019692$3K
2020796$3K
2021673$5K
20221,348$9K
2023301$1K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
80053 Comprehensive metabolic panel 37% 3,010 1,949 $8K
87635 Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe 27% 178 138 $6K
85025 Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count 23% 3,379 2,092 $5K
U0004 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r 3.3% 15 15 $737.50
87804 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type 2.1% 192 186 $453.58
83690 1.4% 417 350 $312.30
80048 Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) 1.1% 626 357 $248.29
83605 <1% 211 173 $176.84
80307 Drug test(s), presumptive, any number of drug classes; immunoassay <1% 1,534 194 $116.93
84484 <1% 382 255 $115.58
81001 <1% 459 406 $104.27
80306 <1% 17 12 $101.83
26 more codes
85027 <1% 452 $97.58
85610 <1% 349 $72.53
87040 <1% 160 $60.39
82150 <1% 121 $38.28
87086 Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine <1% 238 $31.22
84443 Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) <1% 207 $24.63
82962 <1% 631 $23.34
83880 <1% 77 $22.29
83735 <1% 232 $19.68
81025 <1% 107 $14.13
85379 <1% 63 $11.25
81003 <1% 218 $9.75
80061 Lipid panel <1% 83 $6.22
87081 <1% 145 $5.72
84439 <1% 28 $4.43
83036 Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) <1% 91 $3.06
85730 <1% 235 $2.86
84100 <1% 91 $2.33
83550 0% 14 $0.00
82746 0% 14 $0.00
86140 0% 29 $0.00
84703 0% 12 $0.00
82607 0% 31 $0.00
83540 0% 14 $0.00
87880 Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A 0% 82 $0.00
87186 0% 70 $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.