KENNETH A MERKATZ M.D. NPI 1891794905

NPI Details

Kenneth A Merkatz, M.D. is a cardiovascular disease internal medicine in Wethersfield, CT with 38 years of experience. The provider is an internist who specializes in diseases of the heart and blood vessels and manages complex cardiac conditions such as heart attacks and life-threatening, abnormal heartbeat rhythms. Kenneth A Merkatz, M.D. NPI is 1891794905. The provider is registered as an individual entity type.

The NPPES NPI record indicates the provider is a male.

Education
Medical School: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS
Graduation Year:1988

The provider's business location address is:

1260 SILAS DEANE HWY
WETHERSFIELD, CT
ZIP 06109
Phone: (860) 258-3477
Fax: (860) 571-6802

The NPI 1891794905 is registered in the Medicare Provider, Enrollment, Chain and Ownership System (PECOS). The provider is legally eligible to order and refer Part B (Clinical Laboratory and Imaging), Durable Medical Equipment, Part A Home Health Agency (HHA), Power Mobility Devices.

The following top HCPCS codes were publicly reported for this provider under the Medicare program for the year 2016. The reported codes are based on the top codes for each available Medicare specialty, excluding evaluation and management codes.

• Routine electrocardiogram (ecg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report only (HCPCS:93010)
• Routine electrocardiogram (ecg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report (HCPCS:93000)
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes (HCPCS:99214)
• Follow-up hospital inpatient care per day, typically 25 minutes (HCPCS:99232)
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes (HCPCS:99213)
• Ultrasound of heart with color-depicted blood flow, rate, direction and valve function (HCPCS:93306)
• Evaluation of single, dual, multiple lead or leadless pacemaker system or implantable defibrillator system, remote up to 90 days (HCPCS:93296)
• Initial hospital inpatient care per day, typically 50 minutes (HCPCS:99222)
• Injection, regadenoson, 0.1 mg (HCPCS:J2785)
• Evaluation of single, dual, multiple lead or leadless pacemaker system, remote up to 90 days (HCPCS:93294)
• Technetium tc-99m sestamibi, diagnostic, per study dose (HCPCS:A9500)
• Interrogation device evaluation(s), (remote) up to 30 days; implantable cardiovascular physiologic monitor system, implantable loop recorder system, or subcutaneous cardiac rhythm monitor system, remote data acquisition(s), receipt of transmissions and tec (HCPCS:G2066)
• Evaluation of implantable heart and blood vessel monitoring system, remote up to 30 days (HCPCS:93297)
• Nuclear medicine studies of heart muscle at rest and with stress and spect (HCPCS:78452)
• Programming of dual lead pacemaker system (HCPCS:93280)
• Evaluation of single, dual, or multiple lead implantable defibrillator system, remote up to 90 days (HCPCS:93295)
• New patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-44 minutes (HCPCS:99203)
• Follow-up hospital inpatient care per day, typically 15 minutes (HCPCS:99231)
• New patient office or other outpatient visit, 15-29 minutes (HCPCS:99202)
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 10-19 minutes (HCPCS:99212)
• Evaluation of cardiac rhythm monitor system, remote up to 30 days (HCPCS:93298)
• Ultrasound of both sides of head and neck blood flow (HCPCS:93880)
• Heart muscle strain imaging (HCPCS:93356)
• Initial hospital inpatient care per day, typically 30 minutes (HCPCS:99221)
• New patient office or other outpatient visit, 45-59 minutes (HCPCS:99204)
• Electrocardiogram (ecg) up to 30 days continuous with review and report by health care professional (HCPCS:93228)
• Injection, aminophyllin, up to 250 mg (HCPCS:J0280)

The enumeration date for this NPI number is 7/20/2005 and was last updated on 8/12/2010.

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