Physician
Torres-Palacios, Jose
Torres-Palacios, Jose was paid $171K by Medicaid between Aug 2020 and Sep 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 92% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTORRES-PALACIOS, JOSE
SAN JUAN, PR 00926
SAN JUAN, PR 00926
33aNPI1225231541assigned 06/06/2007
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$171K
24GClaims2,168
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthAug 2020 – Sep 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#88 of 518
Median peer was paid$5K
This provider vs. median34×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 228 | $17K | |
| 2021 | 393 | $30K | |
| 2022 | 618 | $47K | |
| 2023 | 440 | $37K | |
| 2024incomplete | 489 | $40K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 92% | 2,029 | 451 | $157K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 7.0% | 123 | 122 | $12K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.5% | 16 | 16 | $3K |
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.