Medicaid Provider SpendingClaims paid 2018–2024 · HHS public file
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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
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

$0$20K$40K2018201920202021202220232024
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
YearClaimsPaid
20181,276$24K
2019794$18K
2020484$22K
20211,618$91K
20221,446$86K
20232,219$153K
2024incomplete784$51K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
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.