John Kessels EMERGENCY MEDICINE Reviews and Ratings

  About John Kessels

  Explanation of Specialties

JOHN KESSELS is a specialist in EMERGENCY MEDICINE. Other specialties include INTERNAL MEDICINE.

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)

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)

  John Kessels Performance Measures

Final MIPS Score	98.3
Final MIPS Score without CPB	91.9
PI Category Score	77.8
IA Category Score	40
Quality Category Score	97.1

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.

Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Receiving and Incorporating Health Information
e-Prescribing
Clinical Data Registry Reporting	Yes
Immunization Registry Reporting	Yes
ONC Direct Review Attestation	Yes
ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation	Yes
Security Risk Analysis	Yes
Syndromic Surveillance Reporting	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 John Kessels

The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for John Kessels.

16300 HWY 1085
COVINGTON, LA 70433
985-871-6088

  Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for John Kessels

Doctors Groups:

John Kessels is not associated with any doctor groups.

Medical Organizations:

Hospital: OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER ACUTE

Hospital: ST TAMMANY PARISH HOSPITAL

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