Joel Wachs MD in Marietta, Georgia

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School
Graduation Year: 1979
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joel Wachs MD is listed as: Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 45
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 6901893767
NPI #: 1164490678
NPI Created On: 03/09/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/16/2019
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
54136
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Alliant Health Plans
• Humana
• Ambetter
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including 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. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
12. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
13. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
14. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
15. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion

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).