Colleen Buchinger HOSPITALIST Reviews and Ratings

  About Colleen Buchinger

  Explanation of Specialties

COLLEEN BUCHINGER is a specialist in HOSPITALIST. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE.

HOSPITALIST: A hospitalist is a subspecialty of physician who treats patients solely in a hospital. Hospitalists practice what is known as hospital medicine, a medical specialty centered on the care of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Hospitalists do not maintain outside practices but provide exclusive care to patients during their hospital stay. This improves the oversight and consistency of care for patients while providing a timely response outside of your primary doctor's usual hospital rounds (times w... (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)

  Colleen Buchinger Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	97
Final MIPS Score without CPB	91.8
PI Category Score	72.7
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.

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  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Colleen Buchinger

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Colleen Buchinger.

2700 CLAY EDWARDS DR
NORTH KANSAS CITY, MO 64116
816-455-0681

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Colleen Buchinger

Doctors Groups:

MERITAS HEALTH CORPORATION

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: NORTH KANSAS CITY HOSPITAL

Hospital: UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS HOSPITAL

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