Merlin Hamer in La Jolla, California

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY

Medical School: Georgetown University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2002
The Primary Medical Specialty for Merlin Hamer is listed as: Hand Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 22
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5092807792
NPI #: 1124233820
NPI Created On: 05/14/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/13/2018
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
A105394
Listed Gender: Male

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injection of carpal tunnel
2. Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane
3. Aspiration and/or injection of small joint or joint capsule
4. Aspiration and/or injection of medium joint or joint capsule
5. Open treatment of broken of lower forearm or growth plate separation with insertion of hardware 3 or more fragments
6. Incision of tendon covering
7. Removal of growth of tendon finger or hand
8. Application of cast, elbow to finger (short arm)
9. Application of non-moveable, short arm splint (forearm to hand)
10. Release of wrist ligament using an endoscope
11. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) with tracing using at least 12 leads
12. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
15. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
16. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg
17. Cast supplies, short arm cast, adult (11 years +), fiberglass
18. Cast supplies, short arm splint, adult (11 years +), fiberglass

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).