Douglas Minnich in Birmingham, Alabama

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)

Medical School: Indiana University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1999
The Primary Medical Specialty for Douglas Minnich is listed as: Cardiac Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 25
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2062597339
NPI #: 1730162041
NPI Created On: 11/22/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/07/2016
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208600000X
License Number:
223522
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Bright Health Insurance Company
• 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. Examination of lung airways using an endoscope
2. Irrigation and suction of lung airways to obtain cells using an endoscope
3. Computer-assisted image-guided navigation of lung airways using an endoscope
4. Biopsy of one lobe of lung using an endoscope
5. Needle biopsy of windpipe cartilage, airway, and/or lung using an endoscope
6. Aspiration of lung secretions from lung airways using an endoscope
7. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
8. Determination of lung volumes using gas dilution or washout
9. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 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 70 minutes per day
14. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day

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).