Altaf Karim in Houston, Texas

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1984
The Primary Medical Specialty for Altaf Karim is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 40
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8527253665
NPI #: 1063509008
NPI Created On: 10/10/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/08/2010
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
J7534
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Community Health Choice
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Hindi.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
2. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
3. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
4. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
5. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
8. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
9. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
10. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
11. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
12. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
13. 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).