Helix, INC.
Helix, INC. was paid $22.70M by Medicaid between Oct 2020 and Jan 2023, across 2 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 — 90% of everything it billed.
SAN DIEGO, CA 92121
Next to other Clinical Medical Laboratory providers in California
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.
Paid by month
By year, as a table
| Year | Claims | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 26,168 | $1.48M | |
| 2021 | 342,865 | $11.63M | |
| 2022 | 255,072 | $9.36M | |
| 2023 | 5,028 | $234K |
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 | 90% | 387,906 | 330,926 | $20.36M |
| 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 | 10% | 241,227 | 202,390 | $2.34M |
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.