Mohammad Alam INFECTIOUS DISEASE Reviews and Ratings

  About Mohammad Alam

  Explanation of Specialties

MOHAMMAD ALAM is a specialist in INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Other specialties include EMERGENCY MEDICINE, and INTERNAL MEDICINE.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE: Infectious disease physicians deal with infections that are hard to diagnose or treat. They also treat serious infections such as the swine flu, bird flu, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases. After medical school, infectious disease physicians must attend an internal medicine residency followed by fellowship training for infectious diseases. (more information)

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)

  Mohammad Alam Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	93.3
Final MIPS Score without CPB	85.7
PI Category Score	68
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	91.4

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.

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  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Mohammad Alam

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Mohammad Alam.

1541 KINGS HWY
SHREVEPORT, LA 71103
318-675-5000

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Mohammad Alam

Doctors Groups:

LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER SHREVEPORT FACULTY GROUP PRACTICE

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: OCHSNER LSU HEALTH SHREVEPORT

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