Melendez, Jose

Melendez, Jose was paid $502K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 93306, Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete — 36% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoMELENDEZ, JOSE
VEGA ALTA, PR 00692

33aNPI1386776862assigned 03/11/2007

33bProvider typeCardiovascular Disease Physician

28Total paid$502K

24GClaims6,115

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Cardiovascular Disease Physician providers in Puerto Rico

Rank by total paid#42 of 174

Median peer was paid$109K

This provider vs. median4.6×

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	659	$33K
2019	563	$21K
2020	728	$56K
2021	1,487	$145K
2022	814	$65K
2023	870	$81K
2024incomplete	994	$103K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
93306	Echocardiography, transthoracic, real-time with image documentation, with and without Doppler, complete	36%	696	676	$180K
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	29%	2,051	1,980	$146K
99204	Doctor's office visit, new patient (more involved)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of a new patient, moderate complexity	19%	941	885	$96K
93000		8.5%	1,944	1,866	$43K
93224		4.0%	151	148	$20K
99213	Doctor's office visit, returning patient (routine)Office or other outpatient visit for the evaluation and management of an established patient, low complexity	3.5%	332	300	$18K

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.