Kalkidan Bishu in Duluth, Minnesota

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

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2003
The Primary Medical Specialty for Kalkidan Bishu is listed as: Interventional Cardiology
Approximate Years of Experience: 21
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1557416831
NPI #: 1881887818
NPI Created On: 08/22/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/29/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RI0011X
License Number:
52162
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Sanford Health Plan
• Medica Health Plans of Wisconsin
• Humana
• Security Health Plan
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Amharic.

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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. Replacement of aortic valve with prosthetic valve, accessed through the skin
3. Catheter insertion of stents in major coronary artery or branch, accessed through the skin
4. Ultrasound evaluation of heart blood vessel or graft
5. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
6. Heart rhythm tracing, analysis, and interpretation of 48-hour ekg
7. Heart rhythm tracing, computer analysis, and interpretation of patient-triggered events greater than 24-hour ekg up to 30 days
8. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
9. Insertion of catheter in right heart for x-ray imaging of blood vessels or grafts
10. Insertion of catheter in left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
11. Insertion of catheter in right and left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
12. Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
17. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
18. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
19. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
20. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion

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).