Dr. Jesus Vargas Jr., MD

Dr. Vargas practices at UPMC Harrisburg in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Vargas' NPI, 1487017059, was assigned on April 1, 2016. Dr. Vargas holds Pennsylvania license MD462558.

Dr. Vargas' primary practice is UPMC Harrisburg, at 111 S Front St, Harrisburg, PA 17101 in Dauphin County. The practice phone is (717) 230-3790.

Dr. Vargas' primary practice is UPMC Harrisburg in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Dr. Vargas is also affiliated with UPMC Harrisburg. The medical group on file is PinnacleHealth Hospitalist Services. Dmand AI also links Dr. Vargas 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. Vargas practices, 3 sites in all. Vendor and product names are available with a free account.

Internal medicine is Dr. Vargas' primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207R00000X. Dmand AI has Dr. Vargas' licenses on file in 2 states: Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

CMS data shows 771 Medicare services from Dr. Vargas across 4 procedure codes in 2024, for 302 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $64,571 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

CMS counts 302 Medicare patients who saw Dr. Vargas in 2024. The largest group is 75 to 84, with 120 patients. 75% of them have heart failure, and 75% have high blood pressure. 21% are also on Medicaid. Their average risk score is 2.66, 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. Vargas' median patient age at 76, with 45% women.

In 2024, Dr. Vargas wrote 2,476 Medicare Part D claims for 404 patients. 75% of them were for generic drugs. CMS names the drug for 2,247 of them, across 35 drugs with 11 or more claims each, at $309,026 in total drug cost. In 2023, CMS named 1,455 claims across 29 drugs.

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 93 out of 100 for Dr. Vargas for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Dr. Vargas accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Dmand AI links 1 paper to Dr. Vargas in 2022. Dr. Vargas' most frequent co-author is Vijay Udyavar Rao, MD, PhD.

CMS Open Payments shows 73 general payments to Dr. Vargas from 10 drug and device companies from 2018 to 2025. Speaker and faculty fees make up the largest share, 86% of the total. Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. paid the most, $23,419. It also lists 1 research payment totaling $5,625 in 2021.