Robert Pueringer MD in Billings, Montana

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
SLEEP MEDICINE

Medical School: University Of Maryland School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for Robert Pueringer MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1456304872
NPI #: 1457442295
NPI Created On: 09/27/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 02/24/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
7626
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Montana Health Cooperative
• PacificSource Health Plans
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
2. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
3. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
4. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
5. Unattended sleep study with recording of heart rate, oxygen, respiratory airflow and effort
6. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab
7. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab
8. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
9. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
17. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
18. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
19. 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).