Vera Howland in Media, Pennsylvania

Medical School: Hahnemann University College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1979
The Primary Medical Specialty for Vera Howland is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 45
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3173658093
NPI #: 1225198807
NPI Created On: 12/12/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/08/2007
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
MD023835E
Listed Gender: Female

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

• Highmark BCBSD Inc.
• AmeriHealth New Jersey
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• AmeriHealth HMO, Inc.
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. Urinalysis, manual test
4. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
5. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
6. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
7. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
11. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
12. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
13. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
14. Transitional care management services, moderately complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 14 days of discharge
15. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
16. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
17. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
18. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
19. Brief communication technology-based service, e.g. virtual check-in, by a physician or other qualified health care professional who can report evaluation and management services, provided to an established patient, not originating from a related e/m servic
20. Injection, denosumab, 1 mg

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).