Joseph Kiernan MD in Falls Church, Virginia

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY)

Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University, School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1982
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Kiernan MD is listed as: Interventional Cardiology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 42
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8426044595
NPI #: 1427052406
NPI Created On: 06/08/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/27/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
0101042237
Listed Gender: Male

---

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

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Humana
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

---

Services and Procedures include:

1. Review and interpretation of external ekg recording for more than 48 hours up to 21 days
2. Catheter insertion of stents in major coronary artery or branch, accessed through the skin
3. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
4. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician supervision, interpretation, and report
5. Heart rhythm tracing, analysis, and interpretation of 48-hour ekg
6. Heart rhythm tracing, computer analysis, and interpretation of patient-triggered events greater than 24-hour ekg up to 30 days
7. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
8. Insertion of catheter for diagnostic evaluation of right heart structures
9. Insertion of catheter for imaging of heart blood vessels or grafts
10. Insertion of catheter in left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
11. Insertion of catheter in right and left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
12. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
13. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
17. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
18. 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).