Richard Ponce in Santa Barbara, California

Medical School: University Of California, San Francisco School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1989
The Primary Medical Specialty for Richard Ponce is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 35
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0446442867
NPI #: 1578576450
NPI Created On: 08/14/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/21/2008
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
G70883
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.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
2. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
3. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
4. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
5. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
10. Online digital evaluation and management service, for an established patient, for up to 7 days, cumulative time during the 7 days; 11-20 minutes
11. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
12. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
13. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
14. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
15. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
16. 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.