Alex Gifford in Cleveland, Ohio

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS)

Medical School: Pennsylvania State University College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2003
The Primary Medical Specialty for Alex Gifford is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 21
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7012031990
NPI #: 1750397188
NPI Created On: 07/31/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/19/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
35.142337
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Celtic Insurance Company
• Humana
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
2. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
3. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
4. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
5. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
8. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
10. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
12. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
13. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion

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).