Jay Bitar MD in Bentonville, Arkansas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1981
The Primary Medical Specialty for Jay Bitar MD is listed as: Interventional Cardiology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 43
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3870498223
NPI #: 1396795928
NPI Created On: 05/12/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/06/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
ME0051776
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Arabic.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Nuclear medicine study of vessels of heart using drugs or exercise multiple studies
2. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
3. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
4. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
5. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician supervision, interpretation, and report
6. Heart rhythm tracing, analysis, and interpretation of 48-hour ekg
7. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent dual lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
8. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
9. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
10. Chest ultrasound examination of heart
11. Insertion of catheter in left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
12. Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 15 minutes
13. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
15. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
17. Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose
18. Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg
19. Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc

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).

They took part in the Million Hearts Initiative, which was deigned to improve cardiac outcomes.