Venketraman Sahasranaman in Council Bluffs, Iowa

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

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2005
The Primary Medical Specialty for Venketraman Sahasranaman is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 19
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3779709761
NPI #: 1710142039
NPI Created On: 07/25/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 04/10/2018
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
41431
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Avera Health Plans, Inc.
• Medica Insurance Company
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Emergent insertion of breathing tube into windpipe cartilage using an endoscope
2. Removal of fluid from chest cavity with imaging guidance
3. Insertion of central venous catheter for infusion, patient 5 years or older
4. Insertion of arterial catheter for blood sampling or infusion, accessed through the skin
5. X-ray of chest, 2 views
6. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
7. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
8. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
9. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 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

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).