Bruce Richards in Nashville, Tennessee

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1982
The Primary Medical Specialty for Bruce Richards is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 42
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4587706056
NPI #: 1972548220
NPI Created On: 06/19/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/20/2014
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
16031
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Oscar Insurance Company of Texas
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Hemoglobin a1c level
2. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
3. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
4. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
5. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
6. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
10. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
11. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
12. Physician re-certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial imp
13. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
14. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit

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).