$2.0B in total Medicare payments across 4 years
Procedure 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) received $2.0B in total Medicare payments.
Across 23.9M services, the average Medicare payment was $82.12 per service.
COVID-19 testing saw massive billing spikes in 2020–2022.
AI-generated analysis based on Medicare payment data.
| Year | Payments | Services | YoY Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $719.6M | 7.2M | — |
| 2021 | $651.5M | 8.7M | -9.5% |
| 2022 | $493.1M | 6.6M | -24.3% |
| 2023 | $94.9M | 1.3M | -80.8% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinai Laboratory Corp | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $6.7M | 91.4K | $73.50 |
| 2 | West Coast Medical Labs Inc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $4.8M | 64.7K | $73.50 |
| 3 | Alpha Diagnostics, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | NC | $4.3M | 59.1K | $73.50 |
| 4 | Fz Medical Group Inc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $4.3M | 58.6K | $73.50 |
| 5 | Shoreline Diagnostics Llc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $3.5M | 47.1K | $73.50 |
| 6 | Pacific Medical Labs | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $3.2M | 43.3K | $73.50 |
| 7 | Clarity Testing Services | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $2.5M | 33.6K | $73.50 |
| 8 | Optimalab Inc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $2.1M | 28.1K | $73.50 |
| 9 | Pasteur Inc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $1.8M | 24.2K | $73.49 |
| 10 | Discover Labs Llc | Clinical Laboratory | TX | $1.4M | 19.6K | $73.49 |
| 11 | Prime Lab, Inc. | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $1.4M | 19.2K | $73.50 |
| 12 | Genentox Laboratories Llc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $1.4M | 18.6K | $73.49 |
| 13 | Simple Laboratories Llc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $1.4M | 18.5K | $73.50 |
| 14 | Avellino Lab Usa, Inc. | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $1.3M | 17.9K | $73.50 |
| 15 | Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings | Clinical Laboratory | NJ | $1.2M | 16.5K | $73.17 |
| 16 | Centers Lab Nj Llc | Clinical Laboratory | NJ | $1.2M | 16.4K | $73.50 |
| 17 | Quest Diagnostics Incorporated | Clinical Laboratory | NJ | $1.2M | 16.3K | $73.50 |
| 18 | Laboratory Corporation Of America Holdings | Clinical Laboratory | NC | $1.2M | 15.9K | $73.50 |
| 19 | Med Rush Clinical Lab Inc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $1.1M | 15.4K | $73.50 |
| 20 | Genetic Technological Innovations, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | AZ | $1.1M | 14.8K | $73.50 |
| 21 | Healthy Care Clinical Laboratory Inc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $1000.0K | 13.6K | $73.50 |
| 22 | Elitemed Laboratories, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | TX | $867.8K | 11.8K | $73.50 |
| 23 | Path Md, Inc. | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $771.9K | 10.5K | $73.50 |
| 24 | Med Tech Clinical Laboratory,inc | Clinical Laboratory | NJ | $747.3K | 10.2K | $73.50 |
| 25 | Ppg Labs Llc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $725.2K | 9.9K | $73.50 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CA | $32.8M | 445.9K | 133 | $246.4K |
| IL | $24.2M | 328.8K | 97 | $249.1K |
| NJ | $7.7M | 105.2K | 76 | $101.7K |
| NC | $6.5M | 88.3K | 14 | $463.6K |
| TX | $4.1M | 56.4K | 64 | $64.7K |
| NY | $2.8M | 38.4K | 122 | $23.1K |
| FL | $2.5M | 34.6K | 54 | $47.1K |
| AZ | $1.8M | 24.9K | 11 | $166.6K |
| LA | $1.0M | 14.1K | 14 | $73.9K |
| VA | $921.8K | 12.5K | 15 | $61.5K |
| TN | $901.5K | 12.3K | 26 | $34.7K |
| MD | $825.1K | 11.2K | 38 | $21.7K |
| OH | $818.2K | 11.1K | 12 | $68.2K |
| PA | $799.2K | 10.9K | 16 | $49.9K |
| WA | $670.0K | 9.1K | 18 | $37.2K |
| GA | $572.7K | 7.8K | 22 | $26.0K |
| WI | $557.1K | 7.6K | 9 | $61.9K |
| OR | $506.4K | 6.9K | 15 | $33.8K |
| CO | $456.7K | 6.2K | 7 | $65.2K |
| MI | $439.4K | 6.0K | 25 | $17.6K |
| SC | $386.4K | 5.3K | 4 | $96.6K |
| MA | $381.9K | 5.2K | 51 | $7.5K |
| MO | $329.1K | 4.5K | 3 | $109.7K |
| KY | $324.6K | 4.4K | 12 | $27.0K |
| KS | $320.5K | 4.4K | 6 | $53.4K |
| IN | $271.6K | 3.7K | 7 | $38.8K |
| MS | $257.2K | 3.5K | 5 | $51.4K |
| AL | $234.2K | 3.2K | 11 | $21.3K |
| MN | $217.6K | 3.0K | 22 | $9.9K |
| NV | $215.9K | 2.9K | 4 | $54.0K |
Last Updated: February 2026 (data through 2023, the latest CMS release)
Note: All data is from publicly available Medicare records. OpenMedicare is an independent journalism project not affiliated with CMS.