Patrick Riccardi in Syracuse, New York

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Un Of California, Irvine, College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1981
The Primary Medical Specialty for Patrick Riccardi is listed as: Rheumatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 43
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0749269025
NPI #: 1255303533
NPI Created On: 02/02/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/22/2017
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RR0500X
License Number:
1449651
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Albumin (protein) level
3. Blood creatinine level
4. Liver enzyme (sgot), level
5. Liver enzyme (sgpt), level
6. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
7. Red blood cell sedimentation rate, to detect inflammation
8. Measurement c-reactive protein for detection of infection or inflammation
9. Measurement of dna antibody
10. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
11. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour
12. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
15. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
16. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
17. Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered)
18. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg
19. Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg
20. Infusion, normal saline solution, 250 cc

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).