Howard Fugate EMERGENCY MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Howard Fugate

  Explanation of Specialties

HOWARD FUGATE is a specialist in EMERGENCY MEDICINE. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE: Emergency Medicine physicians are the doctors in the ER. They see a wide variety of conditions from cuts and burns to infections to heart attacks when they first occur. They are on the front lines of healthcare and often call in additional specialists like surgeons and cardiologist to care for patients. (more information)

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)

  Howard Fugate Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	32.7
Final MIPS Score without CPB	24.5
PI Category Score
IA Category Score	20
Quality Category Score	20

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.

Use of decision support and standardized treatment protocols

Yes

These are important measures that CMS tracks for each doctor. Not all doctors or medical professionals have data.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Howard Fugate

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 3 office locations for Howard Fugate.

23 BEAVER DR
DU BOIS, PA 15801
814-371-4443

33 BEAVER DR
DU BOIS, PA 15801
814-503-8070

15 N FRONT ST
CLEARFIELD, PA 16830
814-503-8070

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Howard Fugate

Doctors Groups:

CLEARFIELD-JEFFERSON PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATES PC

Medical Organizations:

Home Health Care Agency: PENN HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY NURSES

Hospital: PENN HIGHLANDS DUBOIS

Hospital: PENN HIGHLANDS ELK

Hospital: PUNXSUTAWNEY AREA HOSPITAL

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