Physician
Santiago Alvarado, Jose
Santiago Alvarado, Jose was paid $3.21M by Medicaid between Jan 2018 and Dec 2024, across 21 billing codes. Its largest line is 88305, Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination — 26% of everything it billed.
33Billing provider infoSANTIAGO ALVARADO, JOSE
PONCE, PR 00717
PONCE, PR 00717
33aNPI1841496122assigned 06/25/2007
33bProvider typeAnatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician
28Total paid$3.21M
24GClaims68,475
24DCodes billed21
24AFirst – last monthJan 2018 – Dec 2024
Compared with peers
Next to other Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Physician providers in Puerto Rico
Rank by total paid#3 of 7
Median peer was paid$1.48M
This provider vs. median2.2×
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 | 6,969 | $274K | |
| 2019 | 10,671 | $453K | |
| 2020 | 7,802 | $359K | |
| 2021 | 9,016 | $415K | |
| 2022 | 11,787 | $603K | |
| 2023 | 12,148 | $609K | |
| 2024incomplete | 10,082 | $499K |
Box 24 · Service lines
What it billed for
| Code | Service | Share | Claims | Bene. records | Paid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 88305 | Level IV - Surgical pathology, gross and microscopic examination | 26% | 14,113 | 12,545 | $823K |
| 88173 | 12% | 4,121 | 3,831 | $376K | |
| 10005 | 9.7% | 3,555 | 3,310 | $312K | |
| 87624 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; human papillomavirus (HPV), high-risk types | 9.1% | 8,871 | 7,302 | $292K |
| 88172 | 7.7% | 4,342 | 4,027 | $247K | |
| 88307 | 5.4% | 855 | 705 | $174K | |
| 88142 | 5.4% | 9,278 | 7,773 | $172K | |
| 88342 | 4.1% | 2,025 | 1,841 | $133K | |
| 87591 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Neisseria gonorrhoeae, amplified probe | 3.9% | 4,465 | 3,735 | $125K |
| 88312 | 3.8% | 2,011 | 1,827 | $122K | |
| 87661 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Trichomonas vaginalis, amplified probe | 3.6% | 4,206 | 3,508 | $117K |
| 87491 | Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid; Chlamydia trachomatis, amplified probe | 3.6% | 4,463 | 3,736 | $115K |
9 more codes
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.