Nicholas Lopez MD in Paducah, Kentucky

Medical School: University Of Michigan Medical School
Graduation Year: 2000
The Primary Medical Specialty for Nicholas Lopez MD is listed as: Thoracic Surgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 24
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8921056862
NPI #: 1316037005
NPI Created On: 10/13/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/10/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208G00000X
License Number:
42975
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• CareSource
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Replacement of aortic valve using artificial valve on heart-lung machine, open procedure
2. Harvest of veins for coronary artery bypass procedure using an endoscope
3. Combined multiple vein and artery heart artery bypasses
4. Combined multiple vein and artery heart artery bypasses
5. Heart artery bypass to repair one artery
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
10. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 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).