Mahboob Alam in Houston, Texas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2002
The Primary Medical Specialty for Mahboob Alam is listed as: Cardiovascular Disease (cardiology)
Approximate Years of Experience: 22
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3173779220
NPI #: 1831342641
NPI Created On: 10/24/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/13/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
M8477
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Community Health Choice
• Molina Marketplace
• CHRISTUS Health Plan
• 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. Nuclear medicine study of vessels of heart using drugs or exercise multiple studies
2. Catheter insertion of stents in major coronary artery or branch, accessed through the skin
3. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
4. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
5. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician supervision, interpretation, and report
6. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
7. Insertion of catheter in left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
8. Insertion of catheter in right and left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
9. Ultrasound evaluation of heart blood vessel during diagnosis or treatment
10. Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 15 minutes
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
16. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
17. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
18. Technetium tc-99m tetrofosmin, diagnostic, per study dose
19. 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).