Physician
Zaragoza-Buxo, Jose
Zaragoza-Buxo, Jose was paid $540K by Medicaid between May 2018 and Oct 2024, across 9 billing codes. Its largest line is 95004, Percutaneous tests with allergenic extracts, immediate type reaction — 39% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoZARAGOZA-BUXO, JOSE
ARECIBO, PR 00612
ARECIBO, PR 00612
33aNPI1205088630assigned 10/16/2008
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$540K
24GClaims11,512
24DCodes billed9
24AFirst – last monthMay 2018 – Oct 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#26 of 518
Median peer was paid$5K
This provider vs. median108×
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 | 112 | $7K | |
| 2019 | 1,117 | $41K | |
| 2020 | 1,263 | $53K | |
| 2021 | 2,429 | $105K | |
| 2022 | 2,135 | $105K | |
| 2023 | 1,776 | $99K | |
| 2024incomplete | 2,680 | $132K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 95004 | Percutaneous tests with allergenic extracts, immediate type reaction | 39% | 1,184 | 1,156 | $209K |
| 95165 | Professional services for the supervision of preparation and provision of antigens for allergen immunotherapy, multiple dose vials | 29% | 1,926 | 1,895 | $155K |
| 99212 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, straightforward | 12% | 1,662 | 1,619 | $67K |
| 95117 | 9.1% | 5,178 | 3,012 | $49K | |
| 99202 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, straightforward | 7.4% | 857 | 851 | $40K |
| 99203 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, low complexity | 1.6% | 241 | 235 | $9K |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity | 1.2% | 209 | 196 | $7K |
| 99201 | <1% | 127 | 124 | $5K | |
| 99211 | Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, minimal severity | 0% | 128 | 122 | $0.00 |
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.