MERALEE K H BYKER P.A.-C
NPI 1346455870
Physician Assistant in Bellingham, WA
NPI Status: Active since May 10, 2007
Contact Information
1345 KING ST
BELLINGHAM, WA
ZIP 98229
Phone: (360) 676-1696
Fax: (360) 676-6636
- Individual
- Female
- Physician Assistant
- Medicare Quality Reporting
About MERALEE BYKER
This page provides the complete NPI Profile along with additional information for Meralee Byker, a primary care provider established in Bellingham, Washington with a medical specialization in Physician Assistant. The healthcare provider is registered in the NPI registry with number 1346455870 assigned on May 2007. The practitioner's primary taxonomy code is 363A00000X with license number PA10004875 (WA). The provider is registered as an individual and her NPI record was last updated 14 years ago.
- NPI
- 1346455870
- Provider Name
- MERALEE K H BYKER P.A.-C
- Gender
- Female
- Entity Type
- Individual
- Location Address
- 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229
- Location Phone
- (360) 676-1696
- Location Fax
- (360) 676-6636
- Mailing Address
- 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229
- Mailing Phone
- (360) 676-1696
- Mailing Fax
- (360) 676-6636
- Is Sole Proprietor?
- No
- Enumeration Date
- 05-10-2007
- Last Update Date
- 01-11-2012
- Code Navigator
A primary care provider (PCP) like Meralee Byker sees people with common medical problems. The primary care provider might be a doctor, physician assistant, nurse practitioner or clinic that are usually involved in your long-term care. A PCP might provide preventive care, treat common medical conditions, identify urgent medical problems and refer you to specialists when necessary. Primary care is usually provided in an outpatient facility but if you are admitted to a hospital your PCP may assist in your care. The most common medical conditions seen by primary care providers are: hypertension, upper respiratory tract infections, depression or anxiety, back pain, arthritis, dermatitis, diabetes, urinary tract infections, etc .
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Specialty - Primary Taxonomy
The NPI enumerator requires providers to submit at least one taxonomy code. A taxonomy code is a unique 10-character code that describes the healthcare provider type, classification, and the area of specialization. There could be only one primary taxonomy code per NPI record. For individual NPIs the license data is associated to the taxonomy code.
- Classification
Physician Assistant
- Taxonomy Code
- 363A00000X
- Type
- Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers
- License No.
- PA10004875
- License State
- WA
- Taxonomy Description
- A physician assistant is a person who has successfully completed an accredited education program for physician assistant, is licensed by the state and is practicing within the scope of that license. Physician assistants are formally trained to perform many of the routine, time-consuming tasks a physician can do. In some states, they may prescribe medications. They take medical histories, perform physical exams, order lab tests and x-rays, and give inoculations. Most states require that they work under the supervision of a physician.
Insurance Plans Accepted
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Additional Identifiers
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| Identifier | Type / Code | Identifier State | Identifier Issuer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Q51275 | MEDICARE UPIN (02) | WA | |
| 8433690 | MEDICAID (05) | WA | |
| G8855653 | MEDICARE PIN (08) | WA |
Quality Reporting
The provider participated in CMS Quality Payment Program. The Quality Payment Program aims to improve population health, reduce costs and improve the care received by Medicare beneficiaries. The following quality measures meet Medicare's statistical reporting standards. Not all providers report the same information, because not all providers give the same services to patients. The quality information is just a snapshot of some the care providers give to their patients. Reporting more or less information is not a reflection of quality.
| Quality Measure | Performance | Number of Patients |
|---|---|---|
| Chronic Care and Preventative Care Management for Empaneled Patients | Yes | N/A |
| Proactively manage chronic and preventive care for empaneled patients that could include one or more of the following: • Provide patients annually with an opportunity for development and/or adjustment of an individualized plan of care as appropriate to age and health status, including health risk appraisal; gender, age and condition-specific preventive care services; and plan of care for chronic conditions; • Use condition-specific pathways for care of chronic conditions (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, depression, asthma and heart failure) with evidence-based protocols to guide treatment to target; such as a CDC-recognized diabetes prevention program; • Use pre-visit planning to optimize preventive care and team management of patients with chronic conditions; • Use panel support tools (registry functionality) to identify services due; • Use predictive analytical models to predict risk, onset and progression of chronic diseases; or • Use reminders and outreach (e.g., phone calls, emails, postcards, patient portals and community health workers where available) to alert and educate patients about services due; and/or routine medication reconciliation. | ||
| e-Prescribing | 99% | 152 |
| At least one permissible prescription written by the MIPS eligible clinician is queried for a drug formulary and transmitted electronically using certified EHR technology. | ||
| Implementation of medication management practice improvements | Yes | N/A |
| Manage medications to maximize efficiency, effectiveness and safety that could include one or more of the following: Reconcile and coordinate medications and provide medication management across transitions of care settings and eligible clinicians or groups; Integrate a pharmacist into the care team; and/or Conduct periodic, structured medication reviews. | ||
| Measurement and Improvement at the Practice and Panel Level | Yes | N/A |
| Measure and improve quality at the practice and panel level, such as the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS) Physician Scorecards, that could include one or more of the following: • Regularly review measures of quality, utilization, patient satisfaction and other measures that may be useful at the practice level and at the level of the care team or MIPS eligible clinician or group (panel); and/or • Use relevant data sources to create benchmarks and goals for performance at the practice level and panel level. | ||
| Patient-Specific Education | 27% | 33 |
| The MIPS eligible clinician must use clinically relevant information from CEHRT to identify patient-specific educational resources and provide access to those materials to at least one unique patient seen by the MIPS eligible clinician. | ||
| Provide Patient Access | 88% | 33 |
| At least one patient seen by the MIPS eligible clinician during the performance period is provided timely access to view online, download, and transmit to a third party their health information subject to the MIPS eligible clinician's discretion to withhold certain information. | ||
| Secure Messaging | 18% | 33 |
| For at least one unique patient seen by the MIPS eligible clinician during the performance period, a secure message was sent using the electronic messaging function of CEHRT to the patient (or the patient-authorized representative), or in response to a secure message sent by the patient (or the patient-authorized representative) during the performance period. | ||
| Security Risk Analysis | Yes | N/A |
| Conduct or review a security risk analysis in accordance with the requirements in 45 CFR 164.308(a)(1), including addressing the security (to include encryption) of ePHI data created or maintained by certified EHR technology in accordance with requirements in 45 CFR164.312(a)(2)(iv) and 45 CFR 164.306(d)(3), and implement security updates as necessary and correct identified security deficiencies as part of the MIPS eligible clinician's risk management process. | ||
| Specialized Registry Reporting | Yes | N/A |
| The MIPS eligible clinician is in active engagement to submit data to specialized registry. To earn a 5 % bonus in the promoting interoperability performance category score for submitting to one or more public health or clinical data registries also attest to PI_TRANS_PHCDRR_3_MULTI. | ||
| Use of decision support and standardized treatment protocols | Yes | N/A |
| Use decision support and standardized treatment protocols to manage workflow in the team to meet patient needs. | ||
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NPI Validation Check Digit Calculation
The following table explains the step by step NPI number validation process using the ISO standard Luhn algorithm.
| Start with the original NPI number, the last digit is the check digit and is not used in the calculation. | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| Step 1: Double the value of the alternate digits, beginning with the rightmost digit. | |||||||||
| 2 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 14 | |
| Step 2: Add all the doubled and unaffected individual digits from step 1 plus the constant number 24. | |||||||||
| 2 + 3 + 8 + 6 + 8 + 5 + 1 + 0 + 8 + 1 + 4 + 24 = 70 | |||||||||
| Step 3: because the number obtained in step 2 ends in zero, the check digit is zero. | |||||||||
| 0 | |||||||||
The NPI number 1346455870 is valid because the calculated check digit 0 using the Luhn validation algorithm matches the last digit of the original NPI number.
Other Providers at the Same Location
The following 8 providers are registered at the same or nearby location.
| NPI | Name / Type | Taxonomy | Address |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1063426146 | ZACHARY ALAN WEBB M.D. Individual | Psychiatry & Neurology (Neurology) | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
| 1942443270 | CHRISTOPHER P MATHEWS R.T Individual | Respiratory Therapist, Certified | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
| 1912921586 | NORTHSTAR ASSOCIATES, PLLC Organization | Clinic/Center (Sleep Disorder Diagnostic) | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
| 1649363433 | ANNA MARIE PETERS NURSE PRACTITIONER Individual | Nurse Practitioner | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
| 1699774661 | EARL B. FRANKLIN PA C Individual | Physician Assistant | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
| 1457878431 | MARIA DALZOT RDN Individual | Dietitian, Registered | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
| 1386658151 | NORTHSTAR ASSOCIATES Organization | Clinic/Center (Sleep Disorder Diagnostic) | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
| 1962554972 | CAILIE A BUCKINGHAM R.D. Individual | Dietitian, Registered | 1345 KING ST BELLINGHAM, WA 98229 (360) 676-1696 |
Frequently Asked Questions
The NPI number assigned to this healthcare provider is 1346455870, enumerated in the NPI registry as an "individual" on May 10, 2007
The provider is located at 1345 King St Bellingham, Wa 98229 and the phone number is (360) 676-1696
The provider's speciality is Physician Assistant with taxonomy code 363A00000X
The provider might be accepting Accepts: Medicare and Medicaid. Please consult your insurance carrier or call the provider to make sure your health plan is currently accepted.
This NPI record was last updated on May 10, 2007. To officially update your NPI information contact the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) at 1-800-465-3203 (NPI Toll-Free) or by email at [email protected].
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