CLIFTON COWAN Review - (OPTOMETRY)
Get our detailed analysis and review of CMS data for CLIFTON COWAN.
Data is as of March 07, 2024.
The Most Important Data about CLIFTON COWAN
In the briefest summary, CLIFTON COWAN is a specialist in OPTOMETRY. No other specialties were noted. CLIFTON COWAN attended UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON - COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY, graduating in 1984. He maintains 1 office locations. He is a part of 1 medical group. He is affiliated with 0 medical organization (including hospitals, hospices, and skilled nursing facilities).
National Provider Number (NPI):
1811980600What 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 CLIFTON COWAN. Luckily, we are here to help! We’ve put together this page to help you to get a better idea of what the CLIFTON COWAN does, their affiliations and much more. (If you want to jump to a specific section of the review, here are the section headers: Specialities, Ratings, Office Locations, Affiliations, and Other Doctors.
Specialties and Sub-Specialties:
CLIFTON COWAN is a specialist in OPTOMETRY. No other specialties were noted.
OPTOMETRY: Optometrists evaluate people for glasses and contact lenses and can diagnose and treat some eye conditions. They are not medical doctors and do not perform surgery, but they can prescribe some medications. Some people may have vision insurance that covers visits to an optometrist and glasses and contacts, but often that vision insurance does not pay for visits to an Ophthalmologist. Additionally, people may have medical insurance, but that medical insurance does not pay for glasses and contac... (more information)
Reviews and Ratings
MIPS Scores for CLIFTON COWAN
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.
| Final MIPS Score | 100 |
| Final MIPS Score without CPB | 95.5 |
| PI Category Score | 85 |
| IA Category Score | 40 |
| Quality Category Score | 100 |
Measures and Activities
These are important measures that CMS tracks for each doctor. Not all doctors or medical professionals have data.
| Preventive Care and Screening: Body Mass Index (BMI) Screening and Follow-Up Plan | |
| Provide Patients Electronic Access to Their Health Information | |
| e-Prescribing | |
| Diabetes: Eye Exam | |
| Diabetic Retinopathy: Communication with the Physician Managing Ongoing Diabetes Care | |
| Documentation of Current Medications in the Medical Record | |
| Use of High-Risk Medications in the Elderly | |
| Care coordination agreements that promote improvements in patient tracking across settings | Yes |
| Clinical Data Registry Reporting | Yes |
| Collection and follow-up on patient experience and satisfaction data on beneficiary engagement | Yes |
| Collection and use of patient experience and satisfaction data on access | Yes |
| Comprehensive Eye Exams | Yes |
| Diabetes screening | Yes |
| Engagement of New Medicaid Patients and Follow-up | Yes |
| Implementation of Use of Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop | Yes |
| Implementation of formal quality improvement methods, practice changes, or other practice improvement processes | Yes |
| Implementation of improvements that contribute to more timely communication of test results | Yes |
| Implementation of medication management practice improvements | Yes |
| ONC Direct Review Attestation | Yes |
| ONC-ACB Surveillance Attestation | Yes |
| Patient Medication Risk Education | Yes |
| Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention | 100% |
| Preventive Care and Screening: Tobacco Use: Screening and Cessation Intervention | 100% |
| Public Health Registry Reporting | Yes |
| Regularly assess the patient experience of care through surveys, advisory councils and/or other mechanisms. | Yes |
| Security Risk Analysis | Yes |
| Support Electronic Referral Loops By Receiving and Incorporating Health Information Exclusion | Yes |
| Support Electronic Referral Loops By Sending Health Information Exclusion | Yes |
| Tobacco use | Yes |
| Use of High-Risk Medications in the Elderly | 0% |
| Use of QCDR data for ongoing practice assessment and improvements | Yes |
| Use of certified EHR to capture patient reported outcomes | Yes |
Office Locations and Phone Numbers for CLIFTON COWAN
The NursingHomeDatabase database has 1 office location for CLIFTON COWAN.
1100 N 5TH ST
LEESVILLE, LA 71446
337-239-2020
Group and Medical Organization Affiliations for CLIFTON COWAN
Doctors Groups:
Medical Organizations:
CLIFTON COWAN is not affiliated with any hospitals.
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