Muhammad Akbar MD in Evanston, Illinois

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

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1996
The Primary Medical Specialty for Muhammad Akbar MD is listed as: Interventional Cardiology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 28
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2961424643
NPI #: 1952513335
NPI Created On: 05/05/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/17/2009
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RI0011X
License Number:
036105552
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Urdu.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Catheter insertion of stents in major coronary artery or branch, accessed through the skin
2. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
3. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) using at least 12 leads with interpretation and report
4. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring and physician supervision
5. Exercise or drug-induced heart and blood vessel stress test with ekg monitoring, physician interpretation and report
6. Ultrasound examination of heart including color-depicted blood flow rate, direction, and valve function
7. Follow-up or limited ultrasound examination of heart
8. Doppler ultrasound study of heart blood flow, valves, and chambers
9. Doppler ultrasound study of color-directed heart blood flow, rate, and valve function
10. Ultrasound examination of the heart performed during rest, exercise, and/or drug-induced stress with interpretation and report
11. Insertion of catheter for imaging of heart blood vessels or grafts
12. Insertion of catheter in left heart for imaging of blood vessels or grafts and left lower heart
13. Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 15 minutes
14. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
15. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
18. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
19. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
20. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day

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).