Physician
Ortega-Cava, Cesar
Ortega-Cava, Cesar was paid $192K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Nov 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99244, Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity — 66% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoORTEGA-CAVA, CESAR
MANATI, PR 00674
MANATI, PR 00674
33aNPI1356784771assigned 04/16/2013
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$192K
24GClaims3,661
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#78 of 518
Median peer was paid$5K
This provider vs. median38×
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 | 445 | $17K | |
| 2019 | 234 | $11K | |
| 2020 | 523 | $23K | |
| 2021 | 525 | $22K | |
| 2022 | 576 | $24K | |
| 2023 | 684 | $28K | |
| 2024incomplete | 674 | $67K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 99244 | Office or other outpatient consultation, moderate to high complexity | 66% | 3,067 | 2,760 | $126K |
| 99222 | Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity | 19% | 406 | 358 | $37K |
| 99223 | Prolong inpt eval add15 m | 15% | 188 | 155 | $28K |
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.