Issam Al-bitar MD in Watertown, Wisconsin

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY), NUCLEAR MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1979
The Primary Medical Specialty for Issam Al-bitar MD is listed as: Interventional Cardiology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 45
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2961496625
NPI #: 1083608087
NPI Created On: 09/06/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/10/2017
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
26351
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Molina Healthcare of Wisconsin, Inc.
• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Arabic, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Nuclear medicine study of vessels of heart using drugs or exercise multiple studies
2. Catheter insertion of stents in major coronary artery or branch, accessed through the skin
3. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
4. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring and physician supervision
5. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician interpretation and report
6. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
7. Follow-up or limited ultrasound examination of heart
8. Doppler ultrasound study of color-directed heart blood flow, rate, and valve function
9. Insertion of catheter in left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
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. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
14. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
17. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day

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).