Pauline Chao in Norwood, Massachusetts

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
NEPHROLOGY

Medical School: Yale University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1976
The Primary Medical Specialty for Pauline Chao is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 49
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3678646403
NPI #: 1073665873
NPI Created On: 01/18/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/22/2018
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RN0300X
License Number:
44366
Listed Gender: Female

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Forms of insurance accepted by include, but are not limited to:

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Manual urinalysis test with examination using microscope
2. Dialysis services (1 physician visit per month), patient 20 years of age and older
3. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
4. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
5. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
6. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
7. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
8. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
9. Hospital discharge day management, more than 30 minutes
10. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
11. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
12. Advance care planning by the physician or other qualified health care professional
13. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
14. Annual depression screening, 15 minutes

They took part in Medicare's Electronic Health Record Incentive Program which was designed to help move people over to electronic records and improve the systems that were already in place.
They took part in the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).