Phillip Tobash in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Medical School: Philadelphia College Of Osteopathic Medicine
Graduation Year: 1985
The Primary Medical Specialty for Phillip Tobash is listed as: Family Practice
Approximate Years of Experience: 39
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2062549579
NPI #: 1659344455
NPI Created On: 02/10/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 02/02/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
OS005898L
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Capital Advantage Assurance Company
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• UPMC Health Options, Inc.
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Geisinger Quality Options
• 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 needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Removal of impact ear wax, one ear
3. Urinalysis, manual test
4. Stool analysis for blood to screen for colon tumors
5. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
6. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
7. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
8. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Smoking and tobacco use intermediate counseling, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
12. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
13. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
14. Advance care planning by the physician or other qualified health care professional
15. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
16. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
17. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
18. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
19. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
20. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit

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).