Asif Akhtar MD in Houston, Texas

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1989
The Primary Medical Specialty for Asif Akhtar MD is listed as: Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 35
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2264452614
NPI #: 1801900352
NPI Created On: 08/19/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/17/2018
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
L7957
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Community Health Choice
• Celtic Insurance Company
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Urdu, Hindi, Russian, Arabic, 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 scanning of blood flow (outside the brain) on both sides of head and neck
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
8. Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose
9. 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).