Hospitalist Doctors in Elkhart, IN Accepting Medicare

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Rabia Mohammad, M.D.
Hospitalist
Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments
Practice Location: 600 East Blvd, Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: 574-389-7393    
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Dr. Joseph Scott Russo, D.O.
Hospitalist
Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments
Practice Location: 1300 Johnson St, Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: 574-903-7101    
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George Reddy Kasarala, MM.D
Hospitalist
Medicare: Accepting Medicare Assignments
Practice Location: 600 East Blvd, Elkhart, IN 46514
Phone: 574-523-7393    

Hospitalist: Hospitalists are physicians whose primary professional focus is the general medical care of hospitalized patients. Their activities include patient care, teaching, research, and leadership related to Hospital Medicine. The term 'hospitalist' refers to physicians whose practice emphasizes providing care for hospitalized patients.


Medicare Program: Medicare is a federal government program which provides health insurance to people who are 65 or older. This program also covers certain younger people with disabilities (who receive Social Security Disability Insurance - SSDI), and people with End-Stage Renal Disease (permanent kidney failure requiring dialysis or a transplant, sometimes called ESRD.

Medicare Assignment: Assignment means that your doctor, provider, or supplier agrees (or is required by law) to accept the Medicare-approved amount as full payment for covered services. Most doctors, providers, and suppliers accept assignment, but you should always check to make sure. Participating providers have signed an agreement to accept assignment for all Medicare-covered services.

NPI Number: The National Provider Identifier (NPI) is a unique identification number for covered health care providers. The NPI must be used in lieu of legacy provider identifiers in the HIPAA standards transactions. Covered health care providers and all health plans and health care clearinghouses must use the NPIs in the administrative and financial transactions adopted under HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).

Our Data: Information on www.medicarelist.com is built using data sources published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) under Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The information disclosed on the NPI Registry are FOIA-disclosable and are required to be disclosed under the FOIA and the eFOIA amendments to the FOIA. There is no way to 'opt out' or 'suppress' the NPPES record data for health care providers with active NPIs.