Melissa Wells in Ames, Iowa

Medical School: University Of Kansas School Of Med (kc/wich/sal)
Graduation Year: 2010
The Primary Medical Specialty for Melissa Wells is listed as: Rheumatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 14
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 6507039815
NPI #: 1134440886
NPI Created On: 06/17/2010
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/01/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
54317
Listed Gender: Female

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• 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. Non-hormonal anti-neoplastic chemotherapy beneath the skin or into muscle
4. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour
5. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
11. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
12. Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered)
13. Injection, denosumab, 1 mg
14. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
15. Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg

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).