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De LA Pena, Nicolas

De LA Pena, Nicolas was paid $183K by Medicaid between Dec 2020 and Dec 2024, across 3 billing codes. Its largest line is 99233, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex) — 64% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoDE LA PENA, NICOLAS
PITTSBURGH, PA 15206
33aNPI1477554772assigned 08/09/2005
28Total paid$183K
24GClaims3,287
24DCodes billed3
24AFirst – last monthDec 2020 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other Infectious Disease Physician providers in Pennsylvania

Rank by total paid#15 of 87
Median peer was paid$26K
This provider vs. median7.2×

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$5.0K$10K2018201920202021202220232024
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
202055$785.40
2021770$22K
2022698$36K
2023808$58K
2024incomplete956$67K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99233 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m 64% 1,771 584 $117K
99232 Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity 32% 1,420 556 $58K
99255 4.5% 96 94 $8K

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.