Tapan Desai in Munster, Indiana

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE, SLEEP MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2002
The Primary Medical Specialty for Tapan Desai is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 22
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3577751387
NPI #: 1255579876
NPI Created On: 02/04/2009
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/08/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
43302
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Health Net of Arizona, Inc.
• Humana
• CareSource
• 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. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
2. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
3. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
4. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
5. Unattended sleep study with recording of heart rate, oxygen, respiratory airflow and effort
6. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab
7. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 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. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
13. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
14. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
16. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
17. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient
18. Prolonged patient service without direct patient contact first hour
19. Smoking and tobacco use intensive counseling, greater than 10 minutes
20. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 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).