Ajith Puram HOSPITALIST Reviews and Ratings

  About Ajith Puram

  Explanation of Specialties

AJITH PURAM is a specialist in HOSPITALIST. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE, and NEPHROLOGY.

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)

NEPHROLOGY: Nephrologists treat kidney disease and prescribe dialysis for those experiencing kidney failure. After medical school, these physicians attend an internal medicine residency program. They are then required to attend fellowship training for nephrology. (more information)

  Ajith Puram Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	99.3
Final MIPS Score without CPB	93.5
PI Category Score	78.2
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.

There is no measure or activity data for Ajith Puram.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Ajith Puram

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Ajith Puram.

301 YADKIN ST
ALBEMARLE, NC 28001
980-312-4690

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Ajith Puram

Doctors Groups:

CAROLINAS PHYSICIANS NETWORK INC

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: ATRIUM HEALTH PINEVILLE

Hospital: CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER/BEHAV HEALTH

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