Richard Newcomb PREVENTIVE MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Richard Newcomb

  Explanation of Specialties

RICHARD NEWCOMB is a specialist in PREVENTIVE MEDICINE. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE.

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)

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)

  Richard Newcomb Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	98.8
Final MIPS Score without CPB	93.9
PI Category Score	79.7
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.

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  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Richard Newcomb

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for Richard Newcomb.

200 1ST ST SW
ROCHESTER, MN 55905
507-284-2511

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Richard Newcomb

Doctors Groups:

MAYO CLINIC

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL ROCHESTER

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