Paula Duran Sierra in Temple, Texas

Medical School: Sorry, her university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2002
The Primary Medical Specialty for Paula Duran Sierra is listed as: Nephrology
Approximate Years of Experience: 22
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0648562587
NPI #: 1255623971
NPI Created On: 05/12/2011
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/24/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
BP10041327
Listed Gender: Female

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

• Humana
• Oscar Insurance Company
• 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. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Hemodialysis procedure with one physician evaluation
3. Dialysis procedure including one evaluation
4. Dialysis services (4 or more physician visits per month), patient 20 years of age and older
5. Dialysis services (4 or more physician visits per month), patient 20 years of age and older
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
8. Hospital observation care, typically 70 minutes
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
10. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
12. 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).