Aamir Faruqui MD in Walnut Creek, California

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS)

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1991
The Primary Medical Specialty for Aamir Faruqui MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 33
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1254389042
NPI #: 1184619447
NPI Created On: 09/13/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/31/2008
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0200X
License Number:
A70207
Listed Gender: Male

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Change of breathing tube of windpipe in neck
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. Study of sleep patterns
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
11. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
12. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
13. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
14. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
15. Initial nursing facility visit, typically 35 minutes per day
16. Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 25 minutes per day
17. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
18. Home sleep test (hst) with type iv portable monitor, unattended; minimum of 3 channels

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).