Dr. George Ruiz, MD

Dr. Ruiz practices at Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital in Coal Township, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Ruiz's NPI, 1306890090, was assigned on May 19, 2006. Dr. Ruiz graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 1998. Dr. Ruiz holds Pennsylvania license MD473809.

Dr. Ruiz's primary practice is Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital, at 4200 Hospital Rd, Coal Township, PA 17866 in Northumberland County. The practice phone is (570) 644-4200.

Dr. Ruiz's primary practice is Geisinger Shamokin Area Community Hospital in Coal Township, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ruiz is also affiliated with Geisinger Medical Center. The medical group on file is Geisinger. Dmand AI also links Dr. Ruiz to 2 more hospitals and 3 medical groups, each named with a free account.

Dmand AI tracks the electronic health record (EHR) system at each site where Dr. Ruiz practices, 3 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Cardiovascular disease is Dr. Ruiz's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RC0000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Ruiz's licenses on file in 2 states: Pennsylvania and District of Columbia.

CMS data shows 402 Medicare services from Dr. Ruiz across 5 procedure codes in 2024, for 196 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $29,329 for them.

CMS counts 196 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Ruiz in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 72 patients. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. 24% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 1.98, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Dr. Ruiz's median patient age at 73, with 45% women.

In 2024, Dr. Ruiz wrote 909 Medicare Part D claims for 162 patients. 76% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 788 of them, across 24 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $681,124 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 604 claims across 19 drugs.

Dr. Ruiz accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Dmand AI links 11 papers to Dr. Ruiz, published from 2012 to 2019. 2016 was the busiest year, with 2. The most frequent topics are Heart Failure, Heart-Assist Devices and Patient Readmission. Dr. Ruiz's most frequent co-authors are Tolulope Adesiyun Agunbiade, MD, Ana Barac, MD and Stephen K. Epstein.

CMS Open Payments shows 431 general payments to Dr. Ruiz from 14 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Speaker and faculty fees make up the largest share, 70% of the total. United Therapeutics Corporation paid the most, $219,620.

Dr. Ruiz graduated from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 1998.