Joseph Ashwal in Frederick, Maryland

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
SPORTS MEDICINE

Medical School: Wake Forest University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1977
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Ashwal is listed as: Family Practice
Approximate Years of Experience: 47
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7315070984
NPI #: 1508840026
NPI Created On: 11/30/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/02/2016
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
D0026609
Listed Gender: Male

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

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Humana
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
2. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
3. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
4. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
5. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
6. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
10. Transitional care management services, moderately complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 14 days of discharge
11. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
12. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
13. 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
14. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
15. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
16. Annual depression screening, 15 minutes

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).