Vasant Patel MD in North Reading, Massachusetts

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
GERIATRIC MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1989
The Primary Medical Specialty for Vasant Patel MD is listed as: Internal Medicine
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 35
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2567565930
NPI #: 1811900442
NPI Created On: 08/14/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/11/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RG0300X
License Number:
156535
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
2. Brief emotional or behavioral assessment
3. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
4. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
5. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
6. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
7. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
8. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
9. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
10. Annual alcohol misuse screening, 15 minutes
11. Annual depression screening, 15 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).