Physician
Santiago Buono Medical Group & Hospitalist Services,psc
Santiago Buono Medical Group & Hospitalist Services,psc was paid $859K by Medicaid between Mar 2018 and Apr 2022, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 84% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSANTIAGO BUONO MEDICAL GROUP & HOSPITALIST SERVICES,PSC
SAN JUAN, PR 00909
SAN JUAN, PR 00909
33aNPI1346524717assigned 10/04/2011
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$859K
24GClaims15,108
24DCodes billed6
24AFirst – last monthMar 2018 – Apr 2022
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#16 of 518
Median peer was paid$5K
This provider vs. median172×
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 | 2,199 | $38K | |
| 2019 | 2,742 | $44K | |
| 2020 | 3,651 | $188K | |
| 2021 | 5,536 | $491K | |
| 2022 | 980 | $98K |
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 | 84% | 11,429 | 3,188 | $725K |
| 99238 | Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less | 9.5% | 2,027 | 1,914 | $81K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 5.1% | 1,399 | 1,346 | $44K |
| 99283 | Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity | <1% | 189 | 186 | $5K |
| 99285 | Emergency room visit (most serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity with immediate threat to life | <1% | 21 | 16 | $3K |
| 99243 | <1% | 43 | 42 | $875.00 |
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.
From NPPES
Who's on the registration
Authorized officialSANTIAGO, UBALDO (PRESIDENTE)
| Provider | Location | Paid |
|---|---|---|
| Carisma LLC | San Juan, PR | $748K |
| Allure LLC | San Juan, PR | $232K |
| Santiago Buono Er Services LLC | San Juan, PR | $7K |
| Sagesse LLC | San Juan, PR | $5K |
Matched on the authorized-official name exactly as entered in NPPES. A common name can match unrelated people.