Michael Scharf MD in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS)

Medical School: New York Medical College
Graduation Year: 1986
The Primary Medical Specialty for Michael Scharf MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 39
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 6305940354
NPI #: 1417998956
NPI Created On: 06/08/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/10/2019
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
25MA06300700
Listed Gender: Male

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

• AmeriHealth New Jersey
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• AmeriHealth HMO, Inc.
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• UPMC Health Options, Inc.
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Geisinger Quality Options
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of catheter for diagnostic evaluation of right heart structures
2. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
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. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
6. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
7. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
8. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
9. Determination of lung volumes using gas dilution or washout
10. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
11. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
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 15 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
18. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per day
19. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
20. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day

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).