Howard Cummings MD in Johnson City, Tennessee

Medical School: University Of Texas Southwestern Medical School At Dallas
Graduation Year: 1987
The Primary Medical Specialty for Howard Cummings MD is listed as: Ophthalmology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 37
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2163327669
NPI #: 1669478996
NPI Created On: 06/22/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/03/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207WX0107X
License Number:
31044
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injection of drug into eye
2. Removal of membrane from the retina
3. Removal of membrane from the retina, pars plana approach
4. Injection of medication or substance into membrane covering eyeball
5. Ultrasound of eye disease, growth, or structure
6. Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, new patient, 1 or more visits
7. Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient
8. Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient, 1 or more visits
9. Diagnostic imaging of retina
10. Extended examination of eye with drawing of optic nerve and surrounding area (macula)
11. Imaging of blood vessels in back of eye using fluorescein dye
12. Photography of the retina
13. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
16. Injection, aflibercept, 1 mg
17. Injection, ranibizumab, 0.1 mg
18. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg
19. Injection, bevacizumab, 10 mg

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).