Charles Swerdlow in Los Angeles, California

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Graduation Year: 1976
The Primary Medical Specialty for Charles Swerdlow is listed as: Cardiac Electrophysiology
Approximate Years of Experience: 48
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5698833051
NPI #: 1497727309
NPI Created On: 02/03/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/10/2010
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
G34913
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. External ekg recording for more than 48 hours up to 21 days
2. Review and interpretation of external ekg recording for more than 48 hours up to 21 days
3. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
4. Nuclear medicine absolute quantification of blood flow in heart muscle
5. Multiple nuclear medicine studies of blood flow in heart muscle at rest and with stress
6. Blood test, comprehensive group of blood chemicals
7. Blood test, lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides)
8. Natriuretic peptide (heart and blood vessel protein) level
9. Blood test, thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh)
10. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
11. Blood test, clotting time
12. Coagulation assessment blood test
13. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
14. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician supervision, interpretation, and report
15. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent single lead pacemaker system in one chamber of heart with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
16. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent dual lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
17. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent multiple lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
18. Evaluation, testing and programming adjustment of defibrillator with analysis, review and report
19. Evaluation, testing and programming adjustment of defibrillator with analysis, review and report
20. Evaluation of parameters of leadless, single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report

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).