Philip Houck in Temple, Texas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIAC SURGERY

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School
Graduation Year: 1979
The Primary Medical Specialty for Philip Houck is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 45
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5799829735
NPI #: 1124088752
NPI Created On: 03/27/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/25/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
H7757
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Oscar Insurance Company
• 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. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
2. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
3. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring and physician supervision
4. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician interpretation and report
5. Heart rhythm tracing, analysis, and interpretation of 48-hour ekg
6. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
7. Follow-up or limited ultrasound examination of heart
8. Insertion of probe in esophagus for heart ultrasound examination including interpretation and report
9. Doppler ultrasound study of heart blood flow, valves, and chambers
10. Follow-up or limited heart doppler ultrasound study of heart blood flow, valves, and chambers
11. Doppler ultrasound study of color-directed heart blood flow, rate, and valve function
12. Ultrasound examination of the heart performed during rest, exercise, and/or drug-induced stress with interpretation and report
13. Injection of x-ray contrast material for ultrasound examination of the heart
14. Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 15 minutes
15. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
18. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
19. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
20. Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less

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.
They took part in the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).