Dental
DR. Nelson A. Mercado Castro, CSP
DR. Nelson A. Mercado Castro, CSP was paid $767K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 7 billing codes. Its largest line is D7240, Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony — 57% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoDR. NELSON A. MERCADO CASTRO, CSP
AGUADILLA, PR 00603
AGUADILLA, PR 00603
33aNPI1477691913assigned 02/04/2007
33bProvider typeOral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)
28Total paid$767K
24GClaims9,157
24DCodes billed7
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist) providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#9 of 38
Median peer was paid$66K
This provider vs. median12×
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 | 931 | $98K | |
| 2019 | 904 | $83K | |
| 2020 | 898 | $69K | |
| 2021 | 1,957 | $172K | |
| 2022 | 1,355 | $112K | |
| 2023 | 1,298 | $110K | |
| 2024incomplete | 1,814 | $125K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| D7240 | Removal of impacted tooth - completely bony | 57% | 2,513 | 731 | $438K |
| D9223 | Deep sedation/general anesthesia - each subsequent 15 minute increment | 11% | 750 | 670 | $83K |
| D0160 | 9.2% | 1,900 | 1,652 | $70K | |
| D7210 | Extraction, erupted tooth requiring removal of bone and/or sectioning of tooth | 8.6% | 678 | 225 | $66K |
| D9222 | 8.2% | 629 | 560 | $63K | |
| D1999 | 4.8% | 2,401 | 1,799 | $37K | |
| D0330 | Panoramic radiographic image | 1.3% | 286 | 271 | $10K |
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 officialMERCADO, NELSON (PRESIDENT)