Southern Internal Medicine Group, INC.

Southern Internal Medicine Group, INC. was paid $612K by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Oct 2024, across 6 billing codes. Its largest line is 99232, hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day — 65% of everything it billed.

33Billing provider infoSOUTHERN INTERNAL MEDICINE GROUP, INC.
PONCE, PR 00717

33aNPI1780633651assigned 05/09/2006

33bProvider typeInternal Medicine Physician

28Total paid$612K

24GClaims15,522

24DCodes billed6

24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Oct 2024

Compared with peers

Next to other Internal Medicine Physician providers in Puerto Rico

Rank by total paid#23 of 518

Median peer was paid$5K

This provider vs. median123×

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	3,002	$57K
2019	2,574	$43K
2020	1,804	$45K
2021	1,087	$50K
2022	337	$15K
2023	2,105	$123K
2024incomplete	4,613	$279K

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	65%	11,100	1,362	$396K
99238	Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less	11%	1,828	1,261	$67K
99243		9.3%	1,566	1,435	$57K
99223	Prolong inpt eval add15 m	7.9%	413	245	$48K
99233	Hospital visit by a doctor, follow-up day (complex)Prolong inpt eval add15 m	6.3%	561	228	$38K
99222	Initial hospital care, per day, moderate complexity	<1%	54	46	$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.

From NPPES

Who's on the registration

Authorized officialBENITEZ LORENZO, PEDRO (PRESIDENT)