Leon Ptaszek in Newton, Massachusetts

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY), INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai
Graduation Year: 2003
The Primary Medical Specialty for Leon Ptaszek is listed as: Cardiac Electrophysiology
Approximate Years of Experience: 21
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3779752811
NPI #: 1841277175
NPI Created On: 12/28/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/09/2018
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
223624
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. External ekg recording for more than 48 hours up to 21 days
2. Review and interpretation of external ekg recording for more than 48 hours up to 21 days
3. Review and interpretation of external ekg recording for more than 48 hours up to 21 days
4. Insertion of new or replacement of permanent pacemaker including upper and lower chamber electrodes
5. Insertion or replacement of single or dual chamber pacing defibrillator leads
6. Insertion of heart rhythm monitor under skin
7. Removal of heart rhythm monitor from under skin
8. External shock to heart to regulate heart beat
9. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
10. Heart rhythm tracing, analysis, and interpretation of 48-hour ekg
11. Heart rhythm tracing, computer analysis, and interpretation of patient-triggered events greater than 24-hour ekg up to 30 days
12. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent single lead pacemaker system in one chamber of heart with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
13. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent dual lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
14. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent dual lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
15. Evaluation, testing and programming adjustment of defibrillator with analysis, review and report
16. Evaluation, testing and programming adjustment of defibrillator with analysis, review and report
17. Evaluation of parameters of leadless, single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
18. Remote evaluations of single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report, up to 90 days
19. Remote evaluations of defibrillator up to 90 days with analysis, review and report
20. Remote evaluations of single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system or implantable defibrillator system with technician review, support and distribution of results, up to 90 days

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).