Carlos Ponce in Brownsville, Texas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
GASTROENTEROLOGY

Medical School: Texas Tech University Health Science Center School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1999
The Primary Medical Specialty for Carlos Ponce is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 25
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5496853103
NPI #: 1386709707
NPI Created On: 12/26/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/16/2017
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RI0008X
License Number:
M5886
Listed Gender: Male

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

• FirstCare Health Plans
• Molina Marketplace
• Celtic Insurance Company
• Humana
• 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. Biopsy of the esophagus, stomach, and/or upper small bowel using an endoscope
2. Insertion of stomach tube using an endoscope
3. Diagnostic examination of large bowel using an endoscope
4. Biopsy of large bowel using an endoscope
5. Removal of polyps or growths of large bowel using an endoscope
6. Nuclear medicine study of digestive tract
7. Nuclear medicine study of digestive tract
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
12. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
13. 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).