Hamad Azam in Waterloo, Iowa

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS)

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2002
The Primary Medical Specialty for Hamad Azam is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 22
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7214178821
NPI #: 1861602542
NPI Created On: 05/23/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/19/2013
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
40679
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Medica Insurance Company
• Humana

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Emergent insertion of breathing tube into windpipe cartilage using an endoscope
2. Aspiration of lung secretions from lung airways using an endoscope
3. Removal of fluid from chest cavity with imaging guidance
4. Insertion of central venous catheter for infusion, patient 5 years or older
5. Insertion of arterial catheter for blood sampling or infusion, accessed through the skin
6. Ultrasound guidance for accessing into blood vessel
7. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
8. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
9. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
10. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
11. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
12. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
13. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
14. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
18. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
19. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
20. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day

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).