Galarza-Vargas, Sandra

Galarza-Vargas, Sandra was paid $91K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and May 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99291, Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes — 73% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoGALARZA-VARGAS, SANDRA
PONCE, PR 00716

33aNPI1154585255assigned 07/17/2008

33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician

28Total paid$91K

24GClaims1,499

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – May 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Puerto Rico

Rank by total paid#8 of 19

Median peer was paid$57K

This provider vs. median1.6×

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	512	$11K
2019	396	$11K
2020	62	$2K
2022	241	$31K
2023	120	$12K
2024incomplete	168	$23K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99291	Critical care, evaluation and management of the critically ill patient, first 30-74 minutes	73%	529	150	$67K
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	12%	626	192	$11K
99254		10%	233	211	$10K
99243		3.5%	99	93	$3K
94400		<1%	12	12	$285.72

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.