Christine Okwesili INFECTIOUS DISEASE Reviews and Ratings

  About Christine Okwesili

  Explanation of Specialties

CHRISTINE OKWESILI is a specialist in INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Other specialties include HOSPITALIST, and INTERNAL MEDICINE.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE: Infectious disease physicians deal with infections that are hard to diagnose or treat. They also treat serious infections such as the swine flu, bird flu, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases. After medical school, infectious disease physicians must attend an internal medicine residency followed by fellowship training for infectious diseases. (more information)

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)

  Christine Okwesili Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	29.4
Final MIPS Score without CPB	23.5
PI Category Score
IA Category Score	20
Quality Category Score	18.8

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 Christine Okwesili

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for Christine Okwesili.

7601 OSLER DR
TOWSON, MD 21204
410-337-4877

7501 OSLER DR
TOWSON, MD 21204
410-427-5505

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Christine Okwesili

Doctors Groups:

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND ST JOSEPH MEDICAL GROUP LLC

Medical Organizations:

Home Health Care Agency: AMEDISYS HOME HEALTH

Hospital: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER

Hospital: UNIVERSITY OF MD ST JOSEPH MEDICAL CENTER

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