Dana Cruz INTERNAL MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Dana Cruz

  Explanation of Specialties

DANA CRUZ is a specialist in INTERNAL MEDICINE. Other specialties include GENERAL PRACTICE, and PREVENTIVE 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)

GENERAL PRACTICE: Also called family doctors or internists, general practitioners often develop an ongoing relationship with you, providing continuity of care. They treat common medical conditions and perform routine exams. They refer you to other medical services or doctors if you need urgent or specialized treatment.A general practitioner focuses on your overall health: physical and mental. They serve an important role in a much wider healthcare system. One of their main goals is to keep you healthy and out of ... (more information)

PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: Preventive medicine is exactly what it sounds like — it aims to prevent sickness before it happens. The ideology behind preventive medicine focuses on protecting, promoting, and maintaining health and well-being. It also aims to avert disease, disability, and death on an individual basis, as well as on a large scale in communities and populations. Preventive medicine is promoted by all physicians, though some choose to specialize in it. Physicians in this specialty use biostatistics and epidem... (more information)

  Dana Cruz Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	100
Final MIPS Score without CPB	94.6
PI Category Score	82
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 Dana Cruz.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Dana Cruz

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Dana Cruz.

751 S BASCOM AVE
SAN JOSE, CA 95128
408-885-5000

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Dana Cruz

Doctors Groups:

COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER

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