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Velez Melendez, Kid

Velez Melendez, Kid was paid $108K by Medicaid between Mar 2022 and Nov 2024, across 2 billing codes. Its largest line is 99283, emergency room visit (moderate) — 73% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoVELEZ MELENDEZ, KID
CAROLINA, PR 00987
33aNPI1700477874assigned 02/01/2021
28Total paid$108K
24GClaims4,661
24DCodes billed2
24AFirst – last monthMar 2022 – Nov 2024
Compared with peers

Next to other General Practice Physician providers in Puerto Rico

Rank by total paid#171 of 1,195
Median peer was paid$2K
This provider vs. median53×

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$2.5K$5.0K$7.5K2018201920202021202220232024
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
20222,264$15K
20231,469$49K
2024incomplete928$44K
Box 24 · Service lines

What it billed for

CodeServiceShareClaimsBene. recordsPaid
99283 Emergency room visit (moderate)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, moderate severity 73% 4,112 1,641 $79K
99284 Emergency room visit (serious)Emergency department visit for the evaluation and management, high severity 27% 549 343 $29K

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.