Physician
Diagnostic Pathology Services of the Central Coast
Diagnostic Pathology Services of the Central Coast was paid $2.11M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 48 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 53% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY SERVICES OF THE CENTRAL COAST
SANTA MARIA, CA 93454
SANTA MARIA, CA 93454
33aNPI1942549068assigned 02/08/2013
33bProvider typeAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician
28Total paid$2.11M
24GClaims68,515
24DCodes billed48
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in California
Rank by total paid#21 of 222
Median peer was paid$42K
This provider vs. median50×
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 | 2,859 | $120K | |
| 2019 | 4,503 | $212K | |
| 2020 | 9,984 | $327K | |
| 2021 | 25,028 | $372K | |
| 2022 | 12,116 | $312K | |
| 2023 | 7,621 | $419K | |
| 2024incomplete | 6,404 | $351K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 53% | 19,655 | 17,952 | $1.12M |
| 88307 | 22% | 5,992 | 5,918 | $463K | |
| 88304 | 6.8% | 5,384 | 5,212 | $144K | |
| 87635 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), amplified probe | 6.7% | 8,678 | 7,661 | $142K |
| 88342 | 5.5% | 3,134 | 2,941 | $116K | |
| 88341 | 2.7% | 1,110 | 946 | $57K | |
| 88300 | <1% | 1,605 | 1,576 | $12K | |
| 88312 | <1% | 333 | 300 | $9K | |
| 88189 | <1% | 148 | 141 | $8K | |
| 88302 | <1% | 261 | 253 | $7K | |
| 80048 | Basic metabolic panel (calcium, ionized) | <1% | 2,738 | 1,636 | $4K |
| 87086 | Culture, bacterial; quantitative colony count, urine | <1% | 2,521 | 2,306 | $4K |
36 more codes
| 87389 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay technique, HIV-1 antigen with HIV-1 and HIV-2 antibodies | <1% | 809 | $3K |
| 84484 | <1% | 1,131 | $2K | |
| 81001 | <1% | 4,431 | $2K | |
| 88141 | <1% | 205 | $2K | |
| 80055 | <1% | 242 | $2K | |
| 84145 | <1% | 381 | $2K | |
| 87040 | <1% | 865 | $2K | |
| 87880 | Infectious agent antigen detection by immunoassay; Streptococcus, group A | <1% | 721 | $1K |
| 85060 | <1% | 139 | $1K | |
| 87660 | <1% | 375 | $1K | |
| 83550 | <1% | 693 | $1K | |
| 88112 | <1% | 60 | $1K | |
| 86140 | <1% | 987 | $883.12 | |
| 85378 | <1% | 449 | $717.73 | |
| 85007 | <1% | 1,057 | $685.27 | |
| 87070 | <1% | 406 | $613.16 | |
| 80076 | <1% | 379 | $533.64 | |
| 88313 | <1% | 12 | $493.64 | |
| 86885 | <1% | 483 | $478.71 | |
| 81003 | <1% | 966 | $379.52 | |
| 88311 | <1% | 66 | $378.65 | |
| 85651 | <1% | 442 | $319.97 | |
| 86900 | <1% | 551 | $283.15 | |
| 85097 | <1% | 12 | $271.46 | |
| 82565 | <1% | 181 | $166.40 | |
| 82010 | <1% | 115 | $158.72 | |
| 80074 | <1% | 14 | $130.25 | |
| 82950 | <1% | 142 | $117.76 | |
| 85018 | <1% | 269 | $110.44 | |
| 84100 | <1% | 130 | $98.72 | |
| 86704 | <1% | 39 | $81.73 | |
| 82043 | <1% | 75 | $74.67 | |
| 84550 | <1% | 74 | $57.82 | |
| 84450 | <1% | 29 | $26.39 | |
| 84703 | <1% | 13 | $16.76 | |
| 85044 | <1% | 13 | $9.60 |
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 officialFERGUSON, KEVIN (PRESIDENT)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Western Diagnostic Services Laboratory, LLC | Santa Maria, CA | $48K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.