Thomas Rice MD in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS), SLEEP MEDICINE

Medical School: Temple University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2003
The Primary Medical Specialty for Thomas Rice MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 21
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 6901812528
NPI #: 1538115282
NPI Created On: 05/25/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/14/2014
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
MD427115
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• Humana
• UPMC Health Options, Inc.
• 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 the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
2. Determination of lung volumes using gas dilution or washout
3. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
4. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
5. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
8. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
10. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
12. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
13. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
14. Home sleep test (hst) with type iii portable monitor, unattended; minimum of 4 channels: 2 respiratory movement/airflow, 1 ecg/heart rate and 1 oxygen saturation

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).