Howard Kerpen in Manhasset, New York

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
NEPHROLOGY

Medical School: Hahneman Medical College Of The Pacific
Graduation Year: 1972
The Primary Medical Specialty for Howard Kerpen is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 52
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5193817518
NPI #: 1508892258
NPI Created On: 06/24/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/21/2014
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RN0300X
License Number:
117070
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Bone density measurement using dedicated x-ray machine
3. Automated urinalysis test
4. Detection test for influenza virus
5. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
6. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
7. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
8. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
12. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
13. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
14. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
15. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
16. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
17. 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
18. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
19. Electrocardiogram, routine ecg with 12 leads; performed as a screening for the initial preventive physical examination with interpretation and report
20. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit

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).