Jose Santacruz in Houston, Texas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS)

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2000
The Primary Medical Specialty for Jose Santacruz is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 24
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4284758194
NPI #: 1699967695
NPI Created On: 08/14/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/02/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0200X
License Number:
57.011722
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, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Opening of windpipe through neck for insertion of breathing tube
2. Irrigation and suction of lung airways to obtain cells using an endoscope
3. Biopsy of one lobe of lung using an endoscope
4. Destruction of growth or narrowing of lung airway using an endoscope
5. Examination of lung airways using an endoscope with imaging guidance and ultrasound
6. X-ray of chest, 1 view
7. X-ray of chest, 2 views
8. Hemoglobin measurement
9. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
10. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
11. Measurement of largest amount of air breathed in an out of lungs over one minute
12. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
13. Demonstration and/or evaluation of patient use of aerosol generator, nebulizer, metered dose inhaler or intermittent positive pressure breathing (ippb) device
14. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
15. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
16. Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 15 minutes
17. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
18. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
19. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
20. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes

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).

They took part in the Million Hearts Initiative, which was deigned to improve cardiac outcomes.