Veena Acharya in Fallston, Maryland

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: University Of Alabama School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2006
The Primary Medical Specialty for Veena Acharya is listed as: Nephrology
Approximate Years of Experience: 18
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3173791738
NPI #: 1285842211
NPI Created On: 05/21/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 09/27/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RN0300X
License Number:
D0072205
Listed Gender: Female

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

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Geisinger Quality Options
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English,Hindi, Hindi.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Hemodialysis procedure with one physician evaluation
2. Dialysis procedure including one evaluation
3. Dialysis services (4 or more physician visits per month), patient 20 years of age and older
4. Dialysis services (2-3 physician visits per month), patient 20 years of age and older
5. Dialysis services (1 physician visit per month), patient 20 years of age and older
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
13. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
14. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
17. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
18. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
19. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion

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).