What is Esteban Cortez's specialty?

Esteban Cortez (NPI 1497081756) is a Medicare-billing provider whose primary specialty is Physician Assistant in Edinburg, TX.

Where does Esteban Cortez practice?

Esteban Cortez practices in Edinburg, TX, based on the location reported in the CMS Medicare provider datasets for NPI 1497081756.

How much does Medicare pay Esteban Cortez?

Esteban Cortez (NPI 1497081756) received approximately $9K in total Medicare Part B payments, serving 115 beneficiaries, per the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners dataset.

PROVIDER PROFILE · NPI 1497081756

Esteban CortezPA

Physician AssistantEdinburg, TXI

MEDICARE UTILIZATION · PART B · 2024

Total beneficiaries

Unique beneficiaries

—

Total services

108

Distinct HCPCS

Medicare payment

$6K

Peer benchmark

Total Medicare services vs. 6,198 Physician Assistant providers in TX — above median (cohort median 254).

PRESCRIBING · PART D · 2024

Total Rx claims

100

Beneficiaries

—

Total drug cost

$679

Distinct drugs

Brand share

13.0%

Top prescribed drugs

Meloxicam65 claims

Celecoxib22 claims

Amoxicillin/Potassium Clav13 claims

QUALITY · MIPS · 2024

Final MIPS score

77.4

Quality

68.9

Cost

71.0

Improvement activities

40.0

Promoting interop.

0.0

Payment adjustment

0.10%

Group

INDUSTRY PAYMENTS · OPEN PAYMENTS · 2024

No data available for this provider in 2024.

REFERRAL NETWORK

Where Esteban Cortez's patients come from & go

Directional shared-patient flow from Medicare claims — who sends patients to this provider (inbound) and where this provider's patients go next (outbound). 2 inbound referrers · 3 outbound destinations.

Receives referrals from

Inbound — who sends patients here

Physician	Patients	Visits
Jose Cobos Orthopedic Surgery · Harlingen, TX	42	151
PATHOLOGY ASSOCIATES OF SOUTH TEXAS PA	16	17

Refers patients to

Outbound — where patients go next

Physician	Patients	Visits
Jose Cobos Orthopedic Surgery · Harlingen, TX	41	102
HARLINGEN MEDICAL CENTER LIMITED PARTNERSHIP	22	28
Laboratory Corporation Of America Clinical Laboratory · Houston, TX	13	19

Source: CMS Physician Shared Patient Patterns (30-day window, Medicare FFS). Direction = a beneficiary seen by the first provider, then the second, within 30 days; a proxy for referral, not a documented referral. Pairs with fewer than 11 shared beneficiaries are suppressed.

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