Wei-teng Yang INFECTIOUS DISEASE Reviews and Ratings

  About Wei-teng Yang

  Explanation of Specialties

WEI-TENG YANG is a specialist in INFECTIOUS DISEASE. Other specialties include ADDICTION MEDICINE, and INTERNAL MEDICINE.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE: Infectious disease physicians deal with infections that are hard to diagnose or treat. They also treat serious infections such as the swine flu, bird flu, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases. After medical school, infectious disease physicians must attend an internal medicine residency followed by fellowship training for infectious diseases. (more information)

ADDICTION MEDICINE: Addiction medicine is a medical subspecialty, formally recognized since 1990, concerned with the prevention, evaluation, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery of persons with the disease of addiction, of those with substance-related health conditions, and of people who show unhealthy use of substances, including nicotine, alcohol, prescription medications, and other licit and illicit drugs. In 2016, the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), officially recognized addiction medicine as a medi... (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)

  Wei-teng Yang Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	96.2
Final MIPS Score without CPB	88.4
PI Category Score	72.9
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	93.2

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 Wei-teng Yang.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Wei-teng Yang

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for Wei-teng Yang.

3400 SPRUCE ST
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104
215-662-6932

3400 CIVIC CTR BLVD
PHILADELPHIA, PA 19104
215-662-6932

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Wei-teng Yang

Doctors Groups:

UNIVERSITY OF PENN-MEDICAL GROUP

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: HOSPITAL OF UNIV OF PENNSYLVANIA

Hospital: PENN PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER

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