Kavitha Thukkaram in Metuchen, New Jersey

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
HOSPICE/PALLIATIVE CARE

Medical School: Sorry, her university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1998
The Primary Medical Specialty for Kavitha Thukkaram is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 26
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1355521238
NPI #: 1003854282
NPI Created On: 06/02/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 02/02/2015
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
MA72859
Listed Gender: Female

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

• AmeriHealth New Jersey
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Oscar Garden State Insurance Corporation
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: Hindi, Hindi,Spanish,Tamil,Telugu, English, Telugu, Tamil.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
2. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
3. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
4. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
5. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
6. Initial nursing facility visit, typically 45 minutes per day
7. Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 25 minutes per day
8. Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 25 minutes per day
9. Nursing facility discharge management, more than 30 minutes
10. Established patient assisted living visit, typically 40 minutes
11. Established patient assisted living visit, typically 60 minutes
12. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
13. Advance care planning by the physician or other qualified health care professional
14. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
15. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
16. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
17. Annual depression screening, 15 minutes

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).