Joel Schaler in Salida, Colorado

Medical School: University Of Colorado School Of Medicine, Denver
Graduation Year: 1986
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joel Schaler is listed as: Family Practice
Approximate Years of Experience: 38
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3375611122
NPI #: 1114019866
NPI Created On: 09/29/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/24/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
34883
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. Removal of impact ear wax, one ear
4. Manual urinalysis test with examination using microscope
5. Urine microalbumin (protein) analysis
6. Hemoglobin a1c level
7. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
14. Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less
15. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
16. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
17. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
18. Advance care planning by the physician or other qualified health care professional
19. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
20. 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).