Samuel Ralston in Waco, Texas

Medical School: University Of Texas Medical Branch At Galveston
Graduation Year: 1981
The Primary Medical Specialty for Samuel Ralston is listed as: Family Practice
Approximate Years of Experience: 43
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3971644758
NPI #: 1891767539
NPI Created On: 02/06/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/24/2017
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
F9987
Listed Gender: Male

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

• FirstCare Health Plans
• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Destruction of skin growth
2. Destruction of 2-14 skin growths
3. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
4. X-ray of chest, 2 views
5. X-ray of abdomen, 1 view
6. Urinalysis, manual test
7. Hemoglobin a1c level
8. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
9. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
10. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
11. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
15. Advance care planning by the physician or other qualified health care professional
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), subsequent visit
20. Brief communication technology-based service, e.g. virtual check-in, by a physician or other qualified health care professional who can report evaluation and management services, provided to an established patient, not originating from a related e/m servic

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).