Ricardo Blanco in Covington, Louisiana

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS), SLEEP MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1982
The Primary Medical Specialty for Ricardo Blanco is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 42
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1456253970
NPI #: 1356390371
NPI Created On: 05/08/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/23/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0200X
License Number:
10460
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Diagnostic examination of lung airways using an endoscope
2. Removal of fluid from chest cavity with imaging guidance
3. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
4. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
5. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
6. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 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. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
13. Prolonged inpatient or observation hospital service first hour
14. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
15. 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).