James Shaffer MD in Cookeville, Tennessee

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

Medical School: Ohio State University College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1992
The Primary Medical Specialty for James Shaffer MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 32
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8729085139
NPI #: 1801859368
NPI Created On: 04/07/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 04/04/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0200X
License Number:
ME79932
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Celtic Insurance Company
• Humana
• 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. 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. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
4. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
5. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
10. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
11. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
12. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
13. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
14. Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes
15. 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).