Physician
Rivera Vega, Carol
Rivera Vega, Carol was paid $444K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 25 billing codes. Its largest line is 99214, doctor's office visit, returning patient (more involved) — 37% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoRIVERA VEGA, CAROL
PONCE, PR 00716
PONCE, PR 00716
33aNPI1285890822assigned 08/04/2008
33bProvider typeSurgery Physician
28Total paid$444K
24GClaims8,621
24DCodes billed25
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Surgery Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#4 of 111
Median peer was paid$28K
This provider vs. median16×
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 | 1,276 | $24K | |
| 2019 | 794 | $18K | |
| 2020 | 484 | $22K | |
| 2021 | 1,618 | $91K | |
| 2022 | 1,446 | $86K | |
| 2023 | 2,219 | $153K | |
| 2024incomplete | 784 | $51K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 37% | 2,419 | 2,096 | $162K |
| 76811 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation, detailed | 13% | 469 | 246 | $59K |
| 76818 | 9.8% | 560 | 281 | $44K | |
| 76805 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, fetal and maternal evaluation | 9.0% | 519 | 438 | $40K |
| 99395 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 18-39 years | 6.6% | 1,019 | 870 | $30K |
| 99070 | 6.2% | 1,349 | 1,182 | $28K | |
| 99233 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 3.5% | 286 | 79 | $16K |
| G0101 | Cervical or vaginal cancer screening; pelvic and clinical breast examination | 2.5% | 427 | 401 | $11K |
| 99418 | Prolong nursin fac eval 15m | 2.2% | 168 | 29 | $10K |
| Q0091 | Screening papanicolaou smear; obtaining, preparing and conveyance of cervical or vaginal smear to laboratory | 2.2% | 446 | 420 | $10K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 1.4% | 44 | 27 | $6K |
| 99357 | 1.3% | 91 | 29 | $6K |
13 more codes
| 99356 | 1.3% | 91 | $6K | |
| 99213 | Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine) | <1% | 208 | $3K |
| 76815 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, limited | <1% | 47 | $3K |
| 99242 | <1% | 63 | $3K | |
| 99385 | <1% | 110 | $3K | |
| 99396 | Periodic comprehensive preventive medicine reevaluation, established patient, 40-64 years | <1% | 82 | $3K |
| 59025 | Fetal non-stress test | <1% | 114 | $1K |
| 76817 | Ultrasound, pregnant uterus, real time with image documentation, transvaginal | <1% | 16 | $1K |
| 76820 | <1% | 14 | $484.24 | |
| 99204 | Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved) | <1% | 16 | $345.00 |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | <1% | 13 | $153.15 |
| 99221 | <1% | 13 | $140.00 | |
| 87081 | <1% | 37 | $128.93 |
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.