VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC Review

  The Most Important Data about VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC

In the briefest summary, VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC is a medical group with 19 professionals providing medical services at 7 locations. They cover 7 specialties.VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC is affiliated with 2 hospitals

National Provider Number (NPI):

9436209285

   What is this page all about?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") compiles and distributes more than 17 tables of data on medical professionals on a sporadic basis. Some of the tables contain more than a million records which makes it very difficult to manage them. There is a lot of information to pour through when trying to understand VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC. Luckily, we are here to help! I’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC does, their affiliations and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: Ratings, Specialities Covered, Office Locations, Affiliations, and Other Physician Groups.)

   Specialties Covered by VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC

VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC includes medical professionals from 7 specialties

Specialty	Number
NURSE PRACTITIONER	1
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT	7
DERMATOLOGY	8
MICROGRAPHIC DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY (MDS)	2
OTOLARYNGOLOGY	3
PLASTIC AND RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGERY	2
PATHOLOGY	1

   Ratings for VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC

When it comes to healthcare, patients want the best possible care and experience. Figuring this out and boiling it down to a few measures, can be difficult. The information below shows our best analysis. We review all of the the data from CMS. The information below summarizes the results of the most recent annual survey of health care providers called the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or "CAHPS" as well as data used for the calculation of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System ("MIPS"). The most recent data for both of these datasets is calendar year 2021. According to the CMS website, the 2022 survey data is being finalized but they have not indicated when it will be publicly available.

CAHPS Survey Results

There is no information about the overall patient rating for VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC.

MIPS Measures

Measure	Percent Compliance
Biopsy Follow-Up	0%
Closing the Referral Loop: Receipt of Specialist Report	8%
Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record	97%
Engagement of patients through implementation of improvements in patient portal	Yes
Immunization Registry Reporting Exclusion	Yes
Implementation of Use of Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop	Yes
Melanoma: Continuity of Care Recall System	100%
Melanoma: Coordination of Care	0%
ONC Direct Review Attestation	Yes
Preventive Care and Screening: Screening for High Blood Pressure and Follow-Up Documented	0%
Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention	82%
Provide 24/7 Access to MIPS Eligible Clinicians or Groups Who Have Real-Time Access to Patient's Medical Record	Yes
Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information	100%
Psoriasis: Clinical Response to Systemic Medications	31%
Psoriasis: Tuberculosis (TB) Prevention for Patients with Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis on a Biological Immune Response Modifier	100%
Public Health Registry Reporting	Yes
Security Risk Analysis	Yes
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Receiving and Reconciling Health Information	100%
Support Electronic Referral Loops By Sending Health Information	4%
Tobacco Use and Help with Quitting Among Adolescents	53%
Use of High-Risk Medications in Older Adults	0%
e-Prescribing	96%

   VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC Office Locations

   Hospitals Affiliated with VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC

VANGUARD MEDICAL SPECIALISTS LLC professionals work with these hospitals:

• CENTURA CASTLE ROCK ADVENTIST HOSPITAL
• CENTURA HEALTH-PENROSE ST FRANCIS HEALTH SERVICES

   Other Physician Groups

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