Paul Updike INTERNAL MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Paul Updike

  Explanation of Specialties

PAUL UPDIKE is a specialist in INTERNAL MEDICINE. Other specialties include ADDICTION MEDICINE.

INTERNAL MEDICINE: General internists provide primary care to adult patients. Internists usually have more hospital-based training than family practitioners. They may have an office-based practice or work as a hospitalist primarily seeing patients in the hospital. These physicians attend medical school followed by an internal medicine residency. Internists may then choose to pursue a fellowship to sub-specialize in a variety of other areas, like endocrinology (hormone-related conditions) or cardiology (heart-relat... (more information)

ADDICTION MEDICINE: Addiction medicine is a medical subspecialty, formally recognized since 1990, concerned with the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of persons with the disease of addiction, of those with substance-related health conditions, and of people who show unhealthy use of substances, including nicotine, alcohol, prescription medications, and other licit and illicit drugs. In 2016, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), officially recognized addiction medicine as a medi... (more information)

  Paul Updike Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	100
Final MIPS Score without CPB	93
PI Category Score
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	91.8

MIPS is an acronym for Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. Authorized by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reaouthorization Act of 2015, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") developed MIPS to reward clinicians for the value of care they provide rather than the volume of care, quality over quantity. The MIPS final score determines a provider's Medicare Part B payment adjustments. MIPS also created a means for consumers to rank providers.

MIPS scores are calculated using four performance categories, quality, cost, improvement activities, and promotion of interoperability. Higher scores are better.: The highest final MIPS score is 100.

There is no measure or activity data for Paul Updike.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Paul Updike

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Paul Updike.

158 HOLDEN ST
BUFFALO, NY 14214
716-862-1330

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Paul Updike

Doctors Groups:

SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO NEW YORK

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: SISTERS OF CHARITY HOSPITAL

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