Akmal Sarwar MD in Burlington, Massachusetts

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
SLEEP MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1987
The Primary Medical Specialty for Akmal Sarwar MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 37
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4981671716
NPI #: 1568568368
NPI Created On: 09/16/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/21/2012
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
157538
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
2. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
3. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
4. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
5. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
6. Unattended sleep study with recording of heart rate, oxygen, respiratory airflow and effort
7. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
13. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
14. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
17. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
18. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
19. 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).