Joseph Adams in Tupelo, Mississippi

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)

Medical School: University Of Mississippi School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1996
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Adams is listed as: Interventional Cardiology
Approximate Years of Experience: 28
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1355430943
NPI #: 1912003005
NPI Created On: 09/15/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 02/15/2012
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
15456
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Ambetter
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Nuclear medicine study of vessels of heart using drugs or exercise multiple studies
3. Blood test, lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides)
4. Blood creatinine level
5. Natriuretic peptide (heart and blood vessel protein) level
6. Blood test, clotting time
7. Catheter insertion of stents in major coronary artery or branch, accessed through the skin
8. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
9. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician supervision, interpretation, and report
10. Heart rhythm tracing, analysis, and interpretation of 48-hour ekg
11. Heart rhythm symptom-related tracing of 24-hour ekg monitoring up to 30 days
12. Heart rhythm symptom-related interpretation of 24-hour ekg monitoring up to 30 days
13. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent dual lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
14. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
15. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
16. Follow-up or limited ultrasound examination of heart
17. Insertion of probe in esophagus for heart ultrasound examination including interpretation and report
18. Doppler ultrasound study of heart blood flow, valves, and chambers
19. Doppler ultrasound study of color-directed heart blood flow, rate, and valve function
20. Insertion of catheter in left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart

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).