$519.4M in total Medicare payments across 4 years
Procedure 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) received $519.4M in total Medicare payments.
Across 6.4M services, the average Medicare payment was $81.61 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 | $178.7M | 1.8M | — |
| 2021 | $164.3M | 2.2M | -8.1% |
| 2022 | $153.5M | 2.1M | -6.5% |
| 2023 | $22.9M | 311.3K | -85.1% |
| # | Provider | Specialty | State | Payments | Services | Avg/Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lifescan Labs Of Illinois, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $2.6M | 34.8K | $73.50 |
| 2 | Cormeum Lab Services Llc | Clinical Laboratory | LA | $1.6M | 22.2K | $73.50 |
| 3 | Northwell Health Laboratories | Clinical Laboratory | NY | $954.7K | 13.0K | $73.50 |
| 4 | Professional Healthcare Inc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $942.9K | 12.8K | $73.50 |
| 5 | Meditech Clinical Services, Inc. | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $809.1K | 11.0K | $73.49 |
| 6 | Medarbor Llc | Clinical Laboratory | PA | $770.5K | 10.5K | $73.50 |
| 7 | Purity Diagnostic Llc | Clinical Laboratory | NJ | $692.7K | 9.4K | $73.50 |
| 8 | Andor Labs | Clinical Laboratory | NC | $636.8K | 8.7K | $73.50 |
| 9 | Delaware Diagnostic Labs, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | DE | $585.6K | 8.0K | $73.50 |
| 10 | Accu Reference Medical Lab, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | NJ | $563.2K | 7.7K | $73.50 |
| 11 | Criterion Chemistries, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | AL | $499.2K | 6.8K | $73.50 |
| 12 | Hannan Lab Inc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $472.2K | 6.4K | $73.50 |
| 13 | Star Lab, Inc | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $466.4K | 6.3K | $73.50 |
| 14 | Sl Consulting Llc | Clinical Laboratory | NV | $465.8K | 6.3K | $73.50 |
| 15 | Assure Laboratory Inc | Clinical Laboratory | SC | $443.4K | 6.0K | $73.50 |
| 16 | Acutis Diagnostics Inc | Clinical Laboratory | NY | $424.0K | 5.8K | $73.50 |
| 17 | Marquis Labs, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | OK | $421.7K | 5.7K | $73.50 |
| 18 | Aim Laboratories Llc | Clinical Laboratory | MO | $416.5K | 5.7K | $73.50 |
| 19 | Brio Clinical Inc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $397.7K | 5.4K | $73.46 |
| 20 | Primex Clinical Laboratories Inc. | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $384.7K | 5.2K | $73.46 |
| 21 | Doctors General Laboratory Corp | Clinical Laboratory | IL | $349.2K | 4.8K | $73.50 |
| 22 | Q Answer Lab Inc | Clinical Laboratory | NJ | $287.8K | 3.9K | $73.50 |
| 23 | Gmi Laboratories Llc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $283.6K | 3.9K | $73.50 |
| 24 | Unique Medi Tech, Llc | Clinical Laboratory | CA | $267.2K | 3.6K | $73.50 |
| 25 | Gene By Gene Ltd | Clinical Laboratory | TX | $247.0K | 3.4K | $73.50 |
| State | Payments | Services | Providers | Avg/Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL | $5.8M | 78.3K | 15 | $383.5K |
| CA | $2.8M | 38.1K | 38 | $73.6K |
| NJ | $2.3M | 31.6K | 20 | $116.2K |
| NY | $1.8M | 25.0K | 16 | $114.7K |
| LA | $1.6M | 22.3K | 2 | $818.4K |
| PA | $1.2M | 15.8K | 11 | $105.8K |
| NC | $838.0K | 11.4K | 3 | $279.3K |
| AL | $822.2K | 11.2K | 7 | $117.5K |
| TX | $807.5K | 11.0K | 20 | $40.4K |
| DE | $684.1K | 9.3K | 3 | $228.0K |
| SC | $681.9K | 9.3K | 5 | $136.4K |
| OK | $659.6K | 9.0K | 7 | $94.2K |
| NV | $573.4K | 7.8K | 4 | $143.4K |
| MO | $503.1K | 6.8K | 4 | $125.8K |
| MD | $313.4K | 4.3K | 8 | $39.2K |
| GA | $200.1K | 2.7K | 9 | $22.2K |
| FL | $187.9K | 2.6K | 17 | $11.1K |
| KY | $177.4K | 2.4K | 4 | $44.4K |
| UT | $137.6K | 1.9K | 2 | $68.8K |
| MI | $126.6K | 1.7K | 7 | $18.1K |
| VA | $119.1K | 1.6K | 6 | $19.8K |
| OH | $90.0K | 1.2K | 5 | $18.0K |
| MS | $85.3K | 1.2K | 2 | $42.6K |
| WI | $71.6K | 974 | 2 | $35.8K |
| AZ | $55.3K | 752 | 1 | $55.3K |
| WA | $39.1K | 563 | 24 | $1.6K |
| CT | $37.9K | 516 | 2 | $19.0K |
| AR | $27.9K | 379 | 2 | $13.9K |
| TN | $27.0K | 368 | 3 | $9.0K |
| OR | $23.6K | 323 | 3 | $7.9K |
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.