Robert Merz in Santa Monica, California

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Graduation Year: 1981
The Primary Medical Specialty for Robert Merz is listed as: Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)
Approximate Years of Experience: 43
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3870637572
NPI #: 1770580102
NPI Created On: 06/30/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/27/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
G49684
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Nuclear medicine study of vessels of heart using drugs or exercise multiple studies
2. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
3. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician supervision, interpretation, and report
4. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
5. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
6. Heart muscle strain imaging
7. Ultrasound scanning of blood flow (outside the brain) on both sides of head and neck
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose
11. Injection, aminophyllin, up to 250 mg
12. Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 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).