Gordon Downie in Mount Vernon, Texas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS)

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School
Graduation Year: 1986
The Primary Medical Specialty for Gordon Downie is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 38
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7113019068
NPI #: 1275534992
NPI Created On: 08/03/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/07/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0200X
License Number:
M6979
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Molina Marketplace
• CHRISTUS Health Plan
• Blue Cross Blue Shield

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
2. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
3. Respiratory inhaled pressure or nonpressure treatment to relieve airway obstruction or for sputum specimen
4. Initiation and management of continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
5. Demonstration and/or evaluation of patient use of aerosol generator, nebulizer, metered dose inhaler or intermittent positive pressure breathing (ippb) device
6. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
7. Determination of lung volumes using gas dilution or washout
8. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
13. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
14. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient
15. Smoking and tobacco use intermediate counseling, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
16. Home sleep test (hst) with type iii portable monitor, unattended; minimum of 4 channels: 2 respiratory movement/airflow, 1 ecg/heart rate and 1 oxygen saturation
17. Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg
18. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg
19. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg
20. Telehealth originating site facility fee

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).