David Blocker PREVENTIVE MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About David Blocker

  Explanation of Specialties

DAVID BLOCKER is a specialist in PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. Other specialties include EMERGENCY MEDICINE, and 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)

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)

  David Blocker Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	89.3
Final MIPS Score without CPB	84.1
PI Category Score	60.1
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	92

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 David Blocker

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 4 office locations for David Blocker.

1308 E PALUXY RD
GRANBURY, TX 76048
No phone number available

1310 PALUXY RD
GRANBURY, TX 76048
817-579-2963

1310 B PALUXY RD
GRANBURY, TX 76048
No phone number available

1318 PALUXY RD
GRANBURY, TX 76048
817-573-8805

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for David Blocker

Doctors Groups:

HOOD MEDICAL GROUP

Medical Organizations:

Home Health Care Agency: LEE HEALTHCARE INC

Hospital: LAKE GRANBURY MEDICAL CENTER

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