Physician
Torres Nieves, Armando
Torres Nieves, Armando was paid $196K by Medicaid between May 2019 and Aug 2024, across 4 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 64% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoTORRES NIEVES, ARMANDO
SAN JUAN, PR 00926
SAN JUAN, PR 00926
33aNPI1346270790assigned 07/03/2006
33bProvider typeInfectious Disease Physician
28Total paid$196K
24GClaims2,417
24DCodes billed4
24AFirst – last monthMay 2019 – Aug 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Infectious Disease Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#23 of 57
Median peer was paid$106K
This provider vs. median1.9×
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 78 | $2K | |
| 2020 | 90 | $6K | |
| 2021 | 421 | $33K | |
| 2022 | 441 | $32K | |
| 2023 | 722 | $60K | |
| 2024incomplete | 665 | $62K |
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 | 64% | 1,634 | 577 | $125K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 23% | 317 | 306 | $45K |
| 99232 | Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 12% | 451 | 172 | $24K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | <1% | 15 | 14 | $1K |
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.