Forrest Ward in Memphis, Tennessee

Medical School: University Of Tennessee, Hsc, College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1984
The Primary Medical Specialty for Forrest Ward is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 40
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1052364619
NPI #: 1578507661
NPI Created On: 06/16/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/05/2012
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
MD0000016442
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. Automated urinalysis test
2. Stool analysis for blood
3. Hemoglobin a1c level
4. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
5. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
6. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
7. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
8. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
9. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
15. Smoking and tobacco use intermediate counseling, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
16. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
17. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
18. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
19. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
20. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit

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).