Physician
Cruz, Ignacio
Cruz, Ignacio was paid $280K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Aug 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 97597, — 53% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoCRUZ, IGNACIO
PONCE, PR 00731
PONCE, PR 00731
33aNPI1154377885assigned 05/25/2006
33bProvider typeGeneral Practice Physician
28Total paid$280K
24GClaims8,639
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other General Practice Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#83 of 1,195
Median peer was paid$2K
This provider vs. median137×
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 | 1,069 | $14K | |
| 2019 | 1,406 | $17K | |
| 2020 | 2,148 | $65K | |
| 2021 | 823 | $39K | |
| 2022 | 1,002 | $54K | |
| 2023 | 1,910 | $78K | |
| 2024incomplete | 281 | $12K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97597 | 53% | 4,066 | 1,711 | $148K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 42% | 3,709 | 1,473 | $118K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 1.6% | 143 | 92 | $4K |
| 29580 | 1.2% | 112 | 52 | $3K | |
| 99214 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, moderate complexity | <1% | 420 | 179 | $3K |
| 29581 | <1% | 76 | 29 | $2K | |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | <1% | 32 | 26 | $1K |
| 11000 | <1% | 64 | 26 | $811.05 | |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | <1% | 17 | 14 | $33.02 |
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.