Physician
Family Medicine
Dr. Edward Volpintesta, MD
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Edward Volpintesta practices Family Medicine. Edward Volpintesta is a published doctor. He published 95 publications, including: 'Need for solidarity.' He is registered with Medicare and accepts Medicare payments.
Publications
- NPs, shorter training needed to fix workforce shortage in primary care.
- How can we get students to choose primary care careers?
- Administrative overload as a cause of diagnostic error.
- Gatekeeping: good or bad, but never indifferent.
- Putting primary care into practice.
- "Primary care: strategies for survival in the era of managed care".
- "Can't we all just get along?
- Multiple-problem patient visits.
- Primary care: strategies for survival in the era of managed care.
- The human side.
- Putting a human face on medical error.
- How much care is good for us?
- The hospitalist movement: caution lights flashing at the crossroads.
- Sigmoidoscopy costs and the limits of altruism.
- Re: "The relationship of the general practitioner to the hospital staff".
- Protecting medicine's professionalism.
- Medical professionalism and politics.
- Congress must do more to protect patients' rights.
- Managed care, charity care, and the common good.
- Documentation or hyper-documentation?
- Physicians' union.
- Advances in medical care: promise, problems, and proper application.
- What's missing in our meetings?
- Comparing the US and UK health care systems.
- Appointments, procedures, and lawsuit frequency?
- Current health care environment.
- Need for solidarity.
- Hospitalists a positive addition to medicine.
- Quality-of-life and end-of-life decisions.
- The future of primary care.
- Burdensome Medicare guidelines.
- Universal health insurance.
- On being a physician: choices, sacrifice, and balance.
- Is there a place for hospitalists in health-care reform?
- Should the city medical societies take an active part?
- Time.
- Defending health care: for patients, not profits.
- Board certification revisited.
- Academia's chilly climate for primary care.
- Are physicians afraid to criticize their HMOs?
- In response to Dr. Ripps essay "Physicians take collective responsibility for care".
- In response to Dr. Deren's president's page "Immune from criticism".
- "Hospitalists".
- In response to Dr. Deren's "hares and hounds".
- Primary care continuing medical education and managed care.
- Primary care and managed care: where do we go from here?
- In response to Dr. Ahamed.
- Patient-physician relationship.
- Defensive medicine.
- Physicians' role in health care reform.
- Primary care doctor or generalist?
- What's missing in our definitions of primary care?
- How much is too much?
- Doing what "needs" to be done.
- Menkes kinky hair syndrome in a black infant.
- Physician glut: myth or reality?
- Standard of excellence: an illusion?
- Opinions from private physicians overlooked in peer-reviewed journals.
- Generalist-specialist boundary.
- Specialist imperialism.
- Assessing the person now more than ever.
- A hidden cost of malpractice.
- Personal physicians.
- Closed vs open medical staffs.
- A system to honor individualism?
- Medical journals in the educational role.
- The perils of PowerPoint.
- The call for protest.
- The data Gestapo.
- Re: American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) launches new exam prep iPhone application.
- Re: The times they are a-changin.
- Re: Decisions in the context of today's physicians.
- Clinical humanities?
- Cheaters or martyrs?
- Medical education.
- Medical education: progress and retreat.
- The PECOS online Medicare enrollment application.
- Doctors' comments on the Connecticut State Medical Survey.
- Response to primary care: building the health-care institutions of the future.
- If Flexner had listened to Osler.
- Response to the Connecticut 2009 Primary Care Survey.
- Hospitals as comprehensive evaluators of physicians' competence.
- Why blogging will change medical politics forever.
- Re: "What the AMA is doing and why".
- Recertification revisited.
- Re: "Much more than meets the eye".
- Improving grand rounds.
- A portrait of the primary-care physician at age 65.
- Heretical thoughts on saving primary-care.
- Medical home or medical "broken" home.
- UnitedHealth's Designation Program. An insult to doctors and a threat to professional integrity.
- Humanitas or humanism? A rose by any other name does not smell just as sweet.
- The importance of healing skills in the medical home concept.
- An immodest proposal to solve the primary-care physician shortage.
Schools
Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico Iztacala Escuela Nacional De Estudios Prfesionales Iztacala
Memorial University
Danbury Hospital
Stamford Hospital
Doctors Specialties
- Family Medicine
Accepted Insurances
- Aetna HMO
- Choice Plus POS II
- Pathway X Ind PPO Direct Access CT
- Blue Card PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare-Cigna PPO
- Open Access Plus
- Commercial Insurance Company
- Connecticare HMO
- Connecticare POS
- First Health (Coventry Health Care) PPO
- Golden Rule
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care PPO
- Medicare Advantage PFFS
- Choice Care PPO
- Medicaid
- Medicare MCR
- MultiPlan PPO
- PHCS Network PPO
- Freedom Plan
- Tricare
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
- Oxford Liberty
- United Healthcare
Education
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Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Hospital
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Danbury Hospital
Drug Facts
| NPI NUMBER | 1841267507 | |
| NPPES Provider LastName | VOLPINTESTA | |
| NPPES Provider FirstName | EDWARD | |
| NPPES Provider ZIPCode | 068012527 | |
| NPPES Provider State | CT | |
| Specialty Description | Family Practice | |
| Total Claim Count | 2068.0 | |
| Distinct Opioid Count | 2.0 | |
| Opioid Claim Count | 25.0 | |
| Percent Opioid Claims | 1.21 |
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Medicare Facts
| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1841267507 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | VOLPINTESTA |
| First Name Of The Provider | EDWARD |
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