Christopher Christensen GASTROENTEROLOGY Reviews and Ratings

  About Christopher Christensen

  Explanation of Specialties

CHRISTOPHER CHRISTENSEN is a specialist in GASTROENTEROLOGY. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE.

GASTROENTEROLOGY: Gastroenterologists treat the functions and diseases of the digestive system.9This field attracts physicians who enjoy doing procedures, but who also like seeing patients in an outpatient setting. Gastroenterology is another sub-specialty of internal medicine. At minimum, gastroenterologists attend medical school followed by an internal medicine residency. From there, they need to attend fellowship training for gastroenterology. (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)

  Christopher Christensen Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	45
Final MIPS Score without CPB	45
PI Category Score
IA Category Score
Quality Category Score

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.

There is no measure or activity data for Christopher Christensen.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Christopher Christensen

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 3 office locations for Christopher Christensen.

2390 W CONGRESS ST
LAFAYETTE, LA 70506
337-261-6000

5000 HENNESSY BLVD
BATON ROUGE, LA 70808
225-765-6565

764 N ACADIA RD
THIBODAUX, LA 70301
985-446-1958

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Christopher Christensen

Doctors Groups:

LSUHN BILLING LLC

TEXAS DIGESTIVE DISEASE CONSULTANTS PLLC

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: BATON ROUGE GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER

Hospital: OUR LADY OF THE LAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER

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