Shakil Ahmed in New York, New York

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERVENTIONAL PAIN MANAGEMENT, PAIN MANAGEMENT

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1981
The Primary Medical Specialty for Shakil Ahmed is listed as: Anesthesiology
Approximate Years of Experience: 43
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2062606874
NPI #: 1962415752
NPI Created On: 08/14/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/11/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207L00000X
License Number:
221279
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Daily hospital management of continuous spinal drug administration
2. Injections of trigger points in 3 or more muscles
3. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
4. Injection procedure into sacroiliac joint for anesthetic or steroid
5. Injection of substance into spinal canal of lower back or sacrum using imaging guidance
6. Electronic analysis reprogramming and refill of spinal canal drug infusion pump by physician
7. Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance
8. Fluoroscopic guidance for insertion of needle
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
14. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
15. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 20 mg
16. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
17. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg
18. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 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).