Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman MD in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY), INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1989
The Primary Medical Specialty for Pugazhendhi Vijayaraman MD is listed as: Cardiac Electrophysiology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 35
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3173555018
NPI #: 1669422184
NPI Created On: 05/12/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/10/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RC0000X
License Number:
MD427137
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Capital Advantage Assurance Company
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• First Priority Health
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Geisinger Quality Options
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: Tamil, English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Review and interpretation of external ekg recording for more than 48 hours up to 21 days
2. Insertion of new or replacement of permanent pacemaker including upper and lower chamber electrodes
3. Removal of permanent pacemaker pulse generator
4. Insertion or replacement of single or dual chamber pacing defibrillator leads
5. Insertion of heart rhythm monitor under skin
6. External shock to heart to regulate heart beat
7. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
8. 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
9. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of permanent dual lead pacemaker system with physician analysis, review, and report
10. Evaluation, testing and programming adjustment of defibrillator with analysis, review and report
11. Evaluation, testing and programming adjustment of defibrillator with analysis, review and report
12. Evaluation, testing and programming adjustment of defibrillator with analysis, review and report
13. Evaluation, testing, and programming adjustment of heart rhythm monitor system system implanted under skin with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report
14. Telephonic evaluation of single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker heart rhythm strips up to 90 days
15. Remote evaluations of single, dual, or multiple lead pacemaker system with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report, up to 90 days
16. Remote evaluations of defibrillator up to 90 days with analysis, review and report
17. Remote evaluations of heart rhythm monitor system implanted under skin with qualified health care professional analysis, review, and report, up to 30 days
18. Insertion of catheters for 3d mapping of electrical impulses to heart muscles
19. Programmed heart rhythm stimulation after drug infusion into a vein
20. Evaluation and insertion of catheters for creation of complete heart block

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).