Salah Najm in Topeka, Kansas

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS), INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2005
The Primary Medical Specialty for Salah Najm is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Approximate Years of Experience: 19
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8426206921
NPI #: 1982868097
NPI Created On: 07/17/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/09/2014
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
04-35618
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Medica Insurance Company
• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, ARA, FRE.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Emergent insertion of breathing tube into windpipe cartilage using an endoscope
2. Irrigation and suction of lung airways to obtain cells using an endoscope
3. Examination of lung airways using an endoscope with imaging guidance and ultrasound
4. Removal of fluid from chest cavity with imaging guidance
5. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
6. Insertion of central venous catheter for infusion, patient 5 years or older
7. X-ray of chest, 2 views
8. Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (aiiv4), inactivated, adjuvanted, preservative free, for injection into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
9. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
10. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
11. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
12. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
13. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab
14. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
15. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
16. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
18. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
19. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
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).