Carlos Jimenez NUCLEAR MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Carlos Jimenez

  Explanation of Specialties

CARLOS JIMENEZ is a specialist in NUCLEAR MEDICINE. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE, and SPORTS MEDICINE.

NUCLEAR MEDICINE: Nuclear medicine is a specialized area of radiology that uses very small amounts of radioactive materials, or radiopharmaceuticals, to examine organ function and structure. Nuclear medicine imaging is a combination of many different disciplines. These include chemistry, physics, mathematics, computer technology, and medicine. This branch of radiology is often used to help diagnose and treat abnormalities very early in the progression of a disease, such as thyroid cancer.Because X-rays pass throu... (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)

SPORTS MEDICINE: A sports medicine physician has significant specialized training in both the treatment and prevention of illness and injury. They are ideally suited to provide comprehensive medical care for athletes, sports teams or active individuals who are simply looking to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Sports medicine physicians specialize solely in non-surgical sports medicine and serve as team physicians at the youth level, NCAA, NFL, MLB, NBA, WNBA, MLS and NHL, as well as with Olympic teams. A Sports M... (more information)

  Carlos Jimenez Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	91
Final MIPS Score without CPB	88.7
PI Category Score
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	86.7

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 Carlos Jimenez.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Carlos Jimenez

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for Carlos Jimenez.

CENTRO CARDIOVASCULAR ESQUINA AMERICO MIRA
RIO PIEDRAS, PR 92400
787-751-4222

280 AVE MARGINAL KENNEDY
GUAYNABO, PR 96817
787-620-5772

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Carlos Jimenez

Doctors Groups:

SAN PATRICIO MRI AND CT CENTER, P.S.C.

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNITY HOSP

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