Charles Backus EMERGENCY MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Charles Backus

  Explanation of Specialties

CHARLES BACKUS is a specialist in EMERGENCY MEDICINE. Other specialties include HOSPITALIST.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE: Emergency Medicine physicians are the doctors in the ER. They see a wide variety of conditions from cuts and burns to infections to heart attacks when they first occur. They are on the front lines of healthcare and often call in additional specialists like surgeons and cardiologist to care for patients. (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)

  Charles Backus Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	100
Final MIPS Score without CPB	100
PI Category Score
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.

Chronic Care and Preventative Care Management for Empaneled Patients	Yes
Engagement of patients through implementation of improvements in patient portal	Yes
Implementation of medication management practice improvements	Yes
Tobacco use	Yes
Use of decision support and standardized treatment protocols	Yes

These are important measures that CMS tracks for each doctor. Not all doctors or medical professionals have data.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Charles Backus

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for Charles Backus.

273 HWY 11 E
BULLS GAP, TN 37711
423-393-4147

2834 US HWY 23 N
WEBER CITY, VA 24290
276-885-0190

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Charles Backus

Doctors Groups:

EMMAUS MEDICAL AND COUNSELING

Medical Organizations:

Charles Backus is not affiliated with any hospitals.

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