Wallace Purdy JR. MD in Bessemer, Alabama

Medical School: University Of Alabama School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1994
The Primary Medical Specialty for Wallace Purdy JR. MD is listed as: Internal Medicine
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 30
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2567422520
NPI #: 1528166832
NPI Created On: 09/20/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/25/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 174400000X
License Number:
19402
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Urinalysis, manual test
2. Hemoglobin a1c level
3. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
4. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
5. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
6. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
7. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
12. Advance care planning by the physician or other qualified health care professional
13. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
14. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
15. Physician re-certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial imp
16. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
17. Annual depression screening, 15 minutes
18. Annual, face-to-face intensive behavioral therapy for cardiovascular disease, individual, 15 minutes
19. Face-to-face behavioral counseling for obesity, 15 minutes
20. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg

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).