Physician
Rio Valley Emergency Physician Associates PLLC
Rio Valley Emergency Physician Associates PLLC was paid $4.01M by Medicaid between Apr 2023 and Oct 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99284, emergency room visit (serious) — 67% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoRIO VALLEY EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES PLLC
EDINBURG, TX 78539
EDINBURG, TX 78539
33aNPI1134827934assigned 02/21/2023
33bProvider typeEmergency Medicine Physician
28Total paid$4.01M
24GClaims55,399
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthApr 2023 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Emergency Medicine Physician providers in Texas
Rank by total paid#26 of 344
Median peer was paid$25K
This provider vs. median160×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 31,024 | $2.31M | |
| 2024incomplete | 24,375 | $1.71M |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99284 | Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity | 67% | 36,781 | 35,557 | $2.68M |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | 27% | 13,855 | 13,314 | $1.10M |
| 99291 | Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes | 5.2% | 1,320 | 1,287 | $208K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | <1% | 397 | 388 | $15K |
| 93010 | Electrocardiogram, routine ECG with at least 12 leads; interpretation and report only | <1% | 3,046 | 2,874 | $12K |
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 officialGUADARRAMA, CHRISTOPHER (COO)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Emergency Physicians of South Texas PLLC | Harlingen, TX | $310K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.