Elvio Ardilles MD in Walnut Creek, California

Medical School: State University Of New York At Stony Brook, School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2000
The Primary Medical Specialty for Elvio Ardilles MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 24
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2567467988
NPI #: 1518905322
NPI Created On: 06/03/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/10/2008
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
228159
Listed Gender: Male

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Emergent insertion of breathing tube into windpipe cartilage using an endoscope
2. Irrigation and suction of lung airways to obtain cells using an endoscope
3. Removal of fluid from between lung and chest cavity, open procedure
4. Removal of fluid from chest cavity with imaging guidance
5. Insertion of central venous catheter for infusion, patient 5 years or older
6. Insertion of arterial catheter for blood sampling or infusion, accessed through the skin
7. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
8. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
9. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
10. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
15. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
16. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
17. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
18. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
19. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
20. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient

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).