Physician
Santoro, Ralph
Santoro, Ralph was paid $2.08M by Medicaid between Feb 2020 and Feb 2024, across 1 billing code. Its largest line is T2046, Hospice long term care, room and board only; per diem — 100% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSANTORO, RALPH
CRANSTON, RI 02910
CRANSTON, RI 02910
33aNPI1710098249assigned 08/31/2006
33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician
28Total paid$2.08M
24GClaims746
24DCodes billed1
24AFirst – last monthFeb 2020 – Feb 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Rhode Island
Rank by total paid#6 of 386
Median peer was paid$15K
This provider vs. median136×
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.
Auditor's notes
Automated statistical signals. Not evidence of fraud — how these are computed.
Single-Code Concentration100% of spending on code T2046 with only 1 total codes billed. Highly concentrated billing profile.
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 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 128 | $556K | |
| 2021 | 91 | $378K | |
| 2022 | 294 | $650K | |
| 2023 | 215 | $457K | |
| 2024incomplete | 18 | $43K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T2046 | Hospice long term care, room and board only; per diem | 100% | 746 | 428 | $2.08M |
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.