Joseph Farooq in Troy, New York

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1979
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Farooq is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 45
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5294781829
NPI #: 1538152814
NPI Created On: 08/23/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/18/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
184548-1
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of central venous catheter for infusion, patient 5 years or older
2. X-ray of chest, 2 views
3. Ultrasound guidance for accessing into blood vessel
4. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
5. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
6. Diagnostic testing in a pulmonary function lab
7. Demonstration and/or evaluation of patient use of aerosol generator, nebulizer, metered dose inhaler or intermittent positive pressure breathing (ippb) device
8. Determination of lung volumes using gas dilution or washout
9. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 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 70 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
17. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
18. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
19. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
20. 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).