Nurul Chowdhury INTERNAL MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Nurul Chowdhury

  Explanation of Specialties

NURUL CHOWDHURY is a specialist in INTERNAL MEDICINE. Other specialties include ADDICTION MEDICINE, GERIATRIC MEDICINE, and PREVENTIVE 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)

GERIATRIC MEDICINE: Geriatric medicine is the specialty that involves studying, diagnosing and treating diseases or conditions associated with old age. Geriatric medicine is most commonly used for patients that are over 65 as this is the age where most people begin to experience difficulties with their health.Geriatrician doctors are experts in the study of how each medical condition or medication affects another. A geriatrician is a general physician who also undergoes additional studies in the aging process. They... (more information)

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: Preventive medicine is exactly what it sounds like — it aims to prevent sickness before it happens. The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being. It also aims to avert disease, disability, and death on an individual basis, as well as on a large scale in communities and populations. Preventive medicine is promoted by all physicians, though some choose to specialize in it. Physicians in this specialty use biostatistics and epidem... (more information)

  Nurul Chowdhury Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	99.2
Final MIPS Score without CPB	93.5
PI Category Score	78.4
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	100

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 Nurul Chowdhury.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Nurul Chowdhury

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Nurul Chowdhury.

5721 GROSVENOR LN
BETHESDA, MD 20814
301-530-2737

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Nurul Chowdhury

Doctors Groups:

CHOWDHURY MEDICAL ASSOCIATES LLC

Medical Organizations:

Nursing Home: Kensington Healthcare Center

Nursing Home: Montcare at Bethesda

Nursing Home: Autumn Lake Healthcare at Oakview

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