Billy Pence INTERNAL MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Billy Pence

  Explanation of Specialties

BILLY PENCE is a specialist in INTERNAL MEDICINE. Other specialties include HOSPITALIST, and NEPHROLOGY.

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)

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)

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)

  Billy Pence Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	98.8
Final MIPS Score without CPB	93.5
PI Category Score	78.3
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 Billy Pence.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Billy Pence

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for Billy Pence.

590 MEDICAL PARK DR
MARSHALL, NC 28753
828-649-3500

119 MOUNTAIN VIEW RD
MARS HILL, NC 28753
828-689-3507

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Billy Pence

Doctors Groups:

HOT SPRINGS HEALTH PROGRAM INC

Medical Organizations:

Billy Pence is not affiliated with any hospitals.

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