Shankar Hittalmani INTERNAL MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Shankar Hittalmani

  Explanation of Specialties

SHANKAR HITTALMANI is a specialist in INTERNAL MEDICINE. Other specialties include EMERGENCY MEDICINE.

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)

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)

  Shankar Hittalmani Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	82.9
Final MIPS Score without CPB	77.5
PI Category Score	45
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	89.1

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 Shankar Hittalmani.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Shankar Hittalmani

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Shankar Hittalmani.

43839 15TH ST W
LANCASTER, CA 93534
661-945-5984

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Shankar Hittalmani

Doctors Groups:

HIGH DESERT MEDICAL CORPORATION

Medical Organizations:

Shankar Hittalmani is not affiliated with any hospitals.

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