Christopher Smith HOSPITALIST Reviews and Ratings

  About Christopher Smith

  Explanation of Specialties

CHRISTOPHER SMITH is a specialist in HOSPITALIST. Other specialties include CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS), and INTERNAL MEDICINE.

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)

CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS): A critical care medicine doctor (sometimes called an “intensivist”) is a type of specialist with specific expertise in the diagnosis, treatment, and support of critically ill and injured patients, such as trauma victims and patients with multiple organ dysfunction. A critical care medicine doctor is also well-versed in the technological procedures and devices used in intensive care settings, as well as issues such as end-of-life decisions, advance directives, estimating prognosis, and counse... (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)

  Christopher Smith Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	67.1
Final MIPS Score without CPB	59.6
PI Category Score
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	52.4

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 Christopher Smith.

  Office Locations and Phone Numbers for Christopher Smith

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 2 office locations for Christopher Smith.

1379 E HERNDON AVE
FRESNO, CA 93720
559-450-8765

1221 E SPRUCE AVE
FRESNO, CA 93720
559-450-5777

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for Christopher Smith

Doctors Groups:

SAINT AGNES MEDICAL FOUNDATION

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: SAINT AGNES MEDICAL CENTER

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