Robert Altbaum in Norwalk, Connecticut

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Graduation Year: 1975
The Primary Medical Specialty for Robert Altbaum is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 49
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3870677024
NPI #: 1285736124
NPI Created On: 09/01/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 09/09/2015
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
021030
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Urinalysis, manual test
3. Detection test for influenza virus
4. Strep test (streptococcus, group a)
5. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
6. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
7. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
8. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
9. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
14. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
15. Transitional care management services, moderately complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 14 days of discharge
16. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
17. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
18. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
19. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
20. 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

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).