Ketan Desai NUCLEAR MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About Ketan Desai

  Explanation of Specialties

KETAN DESAI is a specialist in NUCLEAR MEDICINE. Other specialties include CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY), and INTERNAL 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)

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE (CARDIOLOGY): These surgeons operate on the blood vessels throughout the body. They often operate on the aorta (the main artery in the body), carotid arteries (blood vessels to the brain) and they treat varicose veins in the legs. (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)

  Ketan Desai Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	98.8
Final MIPS Score without CPB	94.1
PI Category Score	80.3
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 Ketan Desai.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Ketan Desai

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 6 office locations for Ketan Desai.

1412 MILSTEAD AVE NE
CONYERS, GA 30012
770-918-3000

400 TOWER RD NE
MARIETTA, GA 30060
770-720-2383

3820 MEDICAL PARK DR
AUSTELL, GA 30106
770-941-7741

1968 PEACHTREE RD NW
ATLANTA, GA 30309
404-605-5000

1968 PEACHTREE RD NW
ATLANTA, GA 30309
404-605-5000

95 COLLIER NWRD
ATLANTA, GA 30309
404-605-5000

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Ketan Desai

Doctors Groups:

PIEDMONT CARDIOLOGY OF ATLANTA, LLC

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: PIEDMONT HOSPITAL

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