Lab
Empresas Hernandez Mercado INC
Empresas Hernandez Mercado INC was paid $87K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 16 billing codes. Its largest line is 80061, Lipid panel — 18% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoEMPRESAS HERNANDEZ MERCADO INC
RIO PIEDRAS, PR 00925
RIO PIEDRAS, PR 00925
33aNPI1891907101assigned 05/07/2007
33bProvider typeClinical Medical Laboratory
28Total paid$87K
24GClaims10,157
24DCodes billed16
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#554 of 777
Median peer was paid$278K
This provider vs. median0.3×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 1,762 | $13K | |
| 2019 | 1,845 | $13K | |
| 2020 | 949 | $11K | |
| 2021 | 1,253 | $12K | |
| 2022 | 1,905 | $20K | |
| 2023 | 1,587 | $12K | |
| 2024incomplete | 856 | $6K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80061 | Lipid panel | 18% | 1,266 | 1,232 | $15K |
| 80053 | Comprehensive metabolic panel | 17% | 1,563 | 1,510 | $15K |
| 84443 | Thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) | 17% | 998 | 977 | $15K |
| 85025 | Blood count; complete (CBC), automated, and automated differential WBC count | 16% | 2,048 | 1,959 | $14K |
| 87426 | Infectious agent antigen detection, SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) | 8.5% | 191 | 179 | $7K |
| G2023 | Specimen collection for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), any specimen source | 5.3% | 190 | 181 | $5K |
| 36415 | Collection of venous blood by venipuncture | 4.3% | 1,762 | 1,660 | $4K |
| 81000 | 4.1% | 1,251 | 1,205 | $4K | |
| 83036 | Hemoglobin; glycosylated (A1C) | 2.8% | 278 | 271 | $2K |
| 87804 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Influenza, each type | 2.4% | 211 | 103 | $2K |
| 86328 | 1.0% | 56 | 51 | $892.50 | |
| U0002 | 2019-ncov coronavirus, sars-cov-2/2019-ncov (covid-19), any technique, multiple types or subtypes (includes all targets), non-cdc | <1% | 16 | 16 | $821.28 |
4 more codes
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 officialMERCADO HERNANDEZ, LIDIA (MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST)