Lauren Mcdonald in Irving, Texas

Medical School: Temple University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1984
The Primary Medical Specialty for Lauren Mcdonald is listed as: Nephrology
Approximate Years of Experience: 40
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8224152343
NPI #: 1366413288
NPI Created On: 01/30/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/18/2014
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RN0300X
License Number:
G9372
Listed Gender: Female

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

• FirstCare Health Plans
• Molina Marketplace
• Celtic Insurance Company
• Humana
• Oscar Insurance Company
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Hemodialysis procedure with one physician 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. Home dialysis services per month, patient 20 years of age or older
6. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
7. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
8. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
9. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
10. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
12. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
13. Face-to-face educational services related to the care of chronic kidney disease; individual, per session, per one hour

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).