Christopher Tsai MD in Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania

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

Medical School: Georgetown University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1998
The Primary Medical Specialty for Christopher Tsai MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 26
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2466424510
NPI #: 1639145949
NPI Created On: 02/27/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/08/2007
Primary Taxonomy Code: 174400000X
License Number:
MD419273
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• 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 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. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
10. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
12. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient, first 30-74 minutes
13. Critical care delivery critically ill or injured patient
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).