Hernandez-Castillo, Ricardo

Hernandez-Castillo, Ricardo was paid $212K by Medicaid between Jun 2018 and Oct 2024, across 5 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 62% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoHERNANDEZ-CASTILLO, RICARDO
GUAYNABO, PR 00968

33aNPI1629392527assigned 03/22/2010

33bProvider typeCritical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician

28Total paid$212K

24GClaims2,512

24DCodes billed5

24AFirst – last monthJun 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician providers in Puerto Rico

Rank by total paid#6 of 19

Median peer was paid$57K

This provider vs. median3.7×

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	104	$2K
2019	286	$10K
2020	420	$20K
2021	476	$59K
2022	536	$46K
2023	409	$44K
2024incomplete	281	$30K

Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

Code	Service	Share	Claims	Bene. records	Paid
99232	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up daySubsequent hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	62%	1,585	1,112	$132K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	24%	339	256	$51K
99254		6.9%	384	366	$15K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	4.3%	66	63	$9K
99253		2.4%	138	137	$5K

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.