Richard Shepard MD in Richmond, Virginia

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)

Medical School: University Of Alabama School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1987
The Primary Medical Specialty for Richard Shepard MD is listed as: Cardiac Electrophysiology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 37
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2466453956
NPI #: 1346330990
NPI Created On: 10/13/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/08/2013
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0001X
License Number:
0101051562
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Optima Health Plan
• Medicare

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of new or replacement of permanent pacemaker including upper and lower chamber electrodes
2. Insertion of left heart electrode for pacing defibrillator device
3. Insertion or replacement of single or dual chamber pacing defibrillator leads
4. External shock to heart to regulate heart beat
5. Heart rhythm tracing, analysis, and interpretation of 48-hour ekg
6. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent dual lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
7. Evaluation of parameters of leadless, single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
8. Evaluation of parameters of leadless, single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
9. Evaluation of defibrillator including connection, recording and disconnection
10. Evaluation of defibrillator including connection, recording and disconnection
11. Evaluation of parameters of implantable heart and blood vessel monitor system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
12. Evaluation of parameters of implantable heart and blood vessel monitor system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
13. Remote evaluations of single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report, up to 90 days
14. Remote evaluations of defibrillator up to 90 days with analysis, review and report
15. Remote evaluations of implantable heart and blood vessel monitor system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report, up to 30 days
16. Remote evaluations of heart rhythm monitor system implanted under skin with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report, up to 30 days
17. Insertion of catheters for 3d mapping of electrical impulses to heart muscles
18. Insertion of catheters for recording, pacing, and attempted induction of abnormal rhythm in left upper heart
19. Programmed heart rhythm stimulation after drug infusion into a vein
20. Ultrasound evaluation of heart blood vessel

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).