Physician
Nieves, Walter
Nieves, Walter was paid $68K by Medicaid between Feb 2018 and May 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 92012, Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient — 64% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoNIEVES, WALTER
ISABELA, PR 00662
ISABELA, PR 00662
33aNPI1225007453assigned 03/17/2006
33bProvider typeOphthalmology Physician
28Total paid$68K
24GClaims1,365
24DCodes billed5
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2018 – May 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Ophthalmology Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#93 of 141
Median peer was paid$163K
This provider vs. median0.4×
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 | 434 | $20K | |
| 2019 | 456 | $23K | |
| 2020 | 157 | $9K | |
| 2021 | 131 | $7K | |
| 2022 | 31 | $759.65 | |
| 2023 | 88 | $5K | |
| 2024incomplete | 68 | $4K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92012 | Ophthalmological services: medical examination and evaluation, intermediate, established patient | 64% | 596 | 494 | $44K |
| 92015 | Determination of refractive state | 32% | 649 | 537 | $21K |
| 92250 | 2.4% | 40 | 39 | $2K | |
| 92020 | 1.4% | 66 | 62 | $982.96 | |
| 92226 | <1% | 14 | 14 | $175.98 |
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.