Ralph Paone in Lubbock, Texas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
THORACIC SURGERY, VASCULAR SURGERY

Medical School: University Of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston
Graduation Year: 1986
The Primary Medical Specialty for Ralph Paone is listed as: Cardiac Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 38
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8426953316
NPI #: 1396892774
NPI Created On: 01/05/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/22/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208G00000X
License Number:
H2666
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Molina Healthcare of New Mexico, Inc.
• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Harvest of veins for coronary artery bypass procedure using an endoscope
2. Combined multiple vein and artery heart artery bypasses
3. Combined multiple vein and artery heart artery bypasses
4. Heart artery bypass to repair one artery
5. Removal of blood clot and portion of artery of neck
6. Relocation of arm vein with connection to arm artery, open procedure
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
10. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per day
11. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
12. 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

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).