Albert Scherff PREVENTIVE MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Albert Scherff

  Explanation of Specialties

ALBERT SCHERFF is a specialist in PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE.

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)

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)

  Albert Scherff Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	79
Final MIPS Score without CPB	74.7
PI Category Score	49
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	81.8

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.

Pneumococcal Vaccination Status for Older Adults
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Sending Health Information
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention
Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record
Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information
e-Prescribing
Anticoagulant Management Improvements	Yes
Clinical Data Registry Reporting Exclusion	Yes
Consultation of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program	Yes
Controlling High Blood Pressure	46%
Diabetes: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) Poor Control (>9%)	69%
Immunization Registry Reporting Exclusion	Yes
Implementation of Use of Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop	Yes
Implementation of fall screening and assessment programs	Yes
Invasive Procedure or Surgery Anticoagulation Medication Management	Yes
ONC Direct Review Attestation	Yes
ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation	Yes
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	43%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	39%
Public Health Registry Reporting Exclusion	Yes
Query of the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)	Yes
Security Risk Analysis	Yes
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting Exclusion	Yes
Tobacco use	Yes
Use of Patient Safety Tools	Yes
Use of telehealth services that expand practice access	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 Albert Scherff

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Albert Scherff.

902 W HOBBS ST
ATHENS, AL 35611
256-771-7575

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Albert Scherff

Doctors Groups:

Albert Scherff is not associated with any doctor groups.

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: ATHENS LIMESTONE HOSPITAL

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