Vasantha Samala in Glendale Heights, Illinois

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS), SLEEP MEDICINE

Medical School: Southern Illinois University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2002
The Primary Medical Specialty for Vasantha Samala is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 22
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7416023072
NPI #: 1053430033
NPI Created On: 03/28/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/03/2009
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
036112098
Listed Gender: Female

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Forms of insurance accepted by include, but are not limited to:

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
2. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
3. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
4. Determination of lung volumes using gas dilution or washout
5. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
6. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
7. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab
8. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
14. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
17. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
18. Home sleep test (hst) with type iii portable monitor, unattended; minimum of 4 channels: 2 respiratory movement/airflow, 1 ecg/heart rate and 1 oxygen saturation

They took part in Medicare's Electronic Health Record Incentive Program which was designed to help move people over to electronic records and improve the systems that were already in place.