Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo

  • Guaynabo, PR
  • Pulmonologist
NPI1629392527PAC ID8729214481
Medicare services, 2024
136
Medicare patients, 2024
35
Part D claims, 2024
25
Publications
2
MIPS score, 2024
79
Practice address
Ponce De Leon Avenue 735 Stop 37 1/2, San Juan, PR 00918
Practice phone
Call (787) 758-2000
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Primary practice

Hospital Auxilio Mutuo

Hospital · San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo is a pulmonologist in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo practices at Hospital Auxilio Mutuo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, part of Hospital Auxilio Mutuo.

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's NPI, 1629392527, was assigned on March 22, 2010. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo holds Puerto Rico license 17825.

NPI and contact details
Medicare PAC ID
8729214481
NPI enumeration date
March 22, 2010
NPI status
Active
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes
Practice phone
(787) 758-2000
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Sex
Male
Estimated age
48
Medical school graduation
2004

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; Dmand AI Affiliation Data; and Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS)

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo practices in San Juan and Guaynabo

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's primary practice is Hospital Auxilio Mutuo, at Ponce De Leon Avenue 735 Stop 37 1/2, San Juan, PR 00918 in San Juan County. The practice phone is (787) 758-2000. The NPI Registry lists Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's practice address as 101 Ave San Patricio, Guaynabo, PR 00968.

  • Hospital Auxilio MutuoPrimary
    Ponce De Leon Avenue 735 Stop 37 1/2, San Juan, PR 00918 · San Juan CountyPhone(787) 758-2000
  • NPI Registry address
    101 Ave San Patricio, Guaynabo, PR 00968Phone(787) 545-2126

Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Affiliation Data; Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Dmand AI Practice Data

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo is affiliated with 3 sites of care and 2 medical groups

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's primary practice is Hospital Auxilio Mutuo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, part of Hospital Auxilio Mutuo. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo is also affiliated with Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health - Carolina. The medical group on file is Doctors' Center Hospital San Fernando de la Carolina. Dmand AI also links Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo to 1 more hospital and 1 medical group, each named with a free account.

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Sources: Dmand AI Affiliation Data; Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data

Dmand AI tracks the EHR system at Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo's practice

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EHR by site
SiteEHR vendor and product
Hospital Auxilio MutuoAvailable with a free account
+2 more sites and 1 medical groupAvailable with a free account

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Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo is one of 122 pulmonologists in Puerto Rico

Pulmonary disease is Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's primary specialty in the NPI Registry, under taxonomy code 207RP1001X. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo is licensed in Puerto Rico.

Specialties and state licenses

  • Pulmonary disease, Puerto RicoPrimaryLicense 17825 · taxonomy 207RP1001X

Pulmonologists near Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo

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Sources: NPPES NPI Registry (CMS); Dmand AI Professional Profile Data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo billed Medicare for 136 services in 2024

CMS data shows 136 Medicare services from Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo across 3 procedure codes in 2024, for 35 Medicare patients. Medicare paid $15,072 for them. Every service was in a facility, such as a hospital, rather than an office.

Medicare services, 2024136
Medicare patients35
Paid by Medicare$15,072
Procedure codes3

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's Medicare services by type, 2023 to 2024

  • 2023
  • 2024
Office and hospital visits
2023: 2182024: 13638%

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo compared with the Puerto Rico median for pulmonologists, 2024

  • Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo
  • Puerto Rico median
Medicare services
136vs 7581% above
Medicare patients
35vs 34Close to median
Part D claims
44vs 2,92698% below

Medians across 121 pulmonologists in Puerto Rico with Dmand AI profiles that report each measure.

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's most billed Medicare procedure codes, 2024

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Sources: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS), 2024 data; and Dmand AI Peer Benchmarks

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo treated 35 Medicare patients in 2024, average age 72

CMS counts 35 Medicare patients who saw Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo in 2024. 75% of them have high blood pressure, and 75% have high cholesterol. Their average risk score is 2.97, where 1.00 is the Medicare average, so they are sicker than most Medicare patients.

Across all payers, Dmand AI patient panel data puts Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's median patient age at 69, with 58% women.

Medicare patients, 202435
Average age72
Average risk score2.97

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's Medicare patients by sex, 2024

  • Women1749%
  • Men1851%

Chronic conditions among Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's Medicare patients, 2024

  1. High blood pressure75%
  2. High cholesterol75%
  3. Chronic kidney disease69%
  4. Diabetes69%
  5. Heart failure51%
  6. Ischemic heart disease46%
  7. COPD34%
  8. Depression34%

Share of Medicare patients with each condition. A patient can have several.

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's patients across all payers

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Patient panel by age, all payers

Median age 69

Patient panel by sex, all payers

  • Women58%
  • Men42%

Sources: Dmand AI Patient Panel Data; and Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo wrote 25 Medicare Part D claims in 2024

In 2024, Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo wrote 25 Medicare Part D claims. 72% of them were for generic drugs. They cover 4 drugs, with $1,316 in total drug cost. In 2021, CMS named 45 claims across 2 drugs.

Part D claims, 202425
Drugs named by CMS4
Total drug cost$1,316

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's Part D claims by kind of drug, 2024

  • Generic18 claims72%
  • Brand-name and other7 claims28%

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's most prescribed drugs by claims, 2022

CMS names a drug when it has 11 or more claims. Share is of the claims for drugs CMS names.

Part D claims for drugs CMS names, 2021 to 2022

  • 2021
  • 2022
Claims for drugs CMS names
2021: 452022: 442%

Drugs named by CMS: 4 in 2022, 2 in 2021.

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Sources: Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS), 2024 data, released May 6, 2026; and Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS), 2024 data

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo scored 79 out of 100 in Medicare's MIPS program for 2024

CMS publishes a Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) score of 79 out of 100 for Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo for performance year 2024, reported as part of a group. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo accepts Medicare assignment, so Medicare's approved amount is taken as full payment.

Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's MIPS scores, performance year 2024

  • 79of 100Final score
  • 66.2of 100Quality
  • 40of 100Improvement Activities
  • 74of 100Cost

Each score is out of 100. The final score weighs the categories CMS scored for this clinician.

Sources: Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS); and Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS), 2024 data, released September 10, 2026

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Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo has 2 publications on record

Dmand AI links 2 papers to Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo, published from 2015 to 2018. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's most frequent co-authors are Ricardo Alicea-Guevara, MD, Christian Castillo Latorre, MD and Michael Joel Cruz Caliz, MD.

Papers2
Years published2015 to 2018

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's most frequent co-authors

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Sources: PubMed (National Library of Medicine); and Dmand AI Research Linkage

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo received $7,394 in industry payments from 2016 to 2025

CMS Open Payments shows 134 general payments to Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo from 27 drug and device companies from 2016 to 2025. Food and beverage make up the largest share, 66% of the total. Covidien LP paid the most, $2,000.

General payments to Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo by program year, 2016 to 2025

General payments to Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo by kind, 2016 to 2025

$7.4Kin total
  • Food and beverage$4,90866%
  • Consulting fees$2,00027%
  • Travel and lodging$4566%
  • Speaker and faculty fees$300%

Companies that paid Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo the most, 2016 to 2025

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Source: Open Payments (CMS), 2025 data, released July 7, 2026

Sources for Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo's profile data

Sources for the data on this page
Data on this pageSource
NPI, name, sex, specialty and licensesNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Professional Profile Data
Practice locations and phoneNPPES NPI Registry (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Affiliation DataDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Practice Data
Primary practice, affiliations and health systemDmand AI Affiliation DataDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Org Hierarchy Data
Medicare services and procedure codesMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider and Service (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
State medians for the same specialtyDmand AI Peer Benchmarks
Medicare patients and the all-payer patient panelDmand AI Patient Panel DataMedicare Physician & Other Practitioners - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Part D prescribingMedicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider and Drug (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Medicare Part D Prescribers - by Provider (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
MIPS scores, telehealth, assignment and procedure percentilesDoctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (CMS) (opens in a new tab)Clinician Public Reporting: Overall MIPS Performance (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
Publications, topics and co-authorsPubMed (National Library of Medicine) (opens in a new tab)Dmand AI Research Linkage
Industry paymentsOpen Payments (CMS) (opens in a new tab)
EHR at each practice siteDmand AI Technology Install Data
Similar physiciansDmand AI Affiliation Data

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What is Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo's NPI number?

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo's NPI number is 1629392527. It was assigned on March 22, 2010, and it is active in the NPI Registry.

What does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo specialize in?

Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo is a pulmonologist in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The primary specialty in the NPI Registry is Pulmonary Disease Physician (taxonomy code 207RP1001X).

Where does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo practice?

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo practices at Ponce De Leon Avenue 735 Stop 37 1/2, San Juan, PR 00918. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo also practices at 101 Ave San Patricio, Guaynabo, PR 00968. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's primary practice is Hospital Auxilio Mutuo in San Juan, Puerto Rico, part of Hospital Auxilio Mutuo. Dmand AI also links Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo to 1 hospital and 1 medical group.

What is Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo's office phone number?

The practice phone on file for Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo is (787) 758-2000.

What is Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo's medical license number?

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo holds Puerto Rico license 17825.

Which hospitals is Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo affiliated with?

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo practices at Hospital Auxilio Mutuo in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo is also affiliated with Doctors’ Center Hospital Orlando Health - Carolina. Dmand AI links Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo to 1 more hospital.

What medical group is Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo part of?

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo is linked to Doctors' Center Hospital San Fernando de la Carolina. Dmand AI links Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo to 1 more medical group.

Does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo accept Medicare?

Yes. CMS data shows Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo billed Medicare for 136 services in 2024, and Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo accepts Medicare assignment.

What is Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo's MIPS score?

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's MIPS final score for performance year 2024 is 79 out of 100, reported as part of a group.

How many Medicare patients does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo see?

CMS counts 35 Medicare patients who saw Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo in 2024, with an average age of 72.

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What services does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo bill to Medicare?

In 2024, Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's most billed Medicare services were critical care (99291), hospital inpatient care (99232) and hospital inpatient care (99233).

What drugs does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo prescribe most?

In 2022 Medicare Part D data, Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's most prescribed drugs by claims were Atorvastatin Calcium, Fenofibrate and Omega-3 Acid Ethyl Esters.

Has Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo received payments from drug or device companies?

CMS Open Payments shows $7,394 in general payments to Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo from 27 companies from 2016 to 2025. The largest total came from Covidien LP.

How long has Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo been practicing?

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo graduated from medical school in 2004, 22 years ago.

Does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo do research?

Dmand AI links 2 publications to Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo, published from 2015 to 2018.

Who does Ricardo A. Hernandez-Castillo publish with?

Ricardo Hernandez-Castillo's most frequent co-authors are Ricardo Alicea-Guevara, MD (1 shared paper), Christian Castillo Latorre, MD (1 shared paper) and Michael Joel Cruz Caliz, MD (1 shared paper).

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