Wendell Phillips MD in Tyler, Texas

Medical School: Tulane University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1986
The Primary Medical Specialty for Wendell Phillips MD is listed as: Thoracic Surgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 38
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8325022031
NPI #: 1164497871
NPI Created On: 02/17/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/12/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208G00000X
License Number:
K3395
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Celtic Insurance Company
• 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. Replacement of aortic valve with prosthetic valve, accessed through the skin
2. Harvest of veins for coronary artery bypass procedure using an endoscope
3. Combined multiple vein and artery heart artery bypasses
4. Heart artery bypass to repair one artery
5. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
6. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem

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).