David Alster in Tucson, Arizona

Medical School: Tulane University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1982
The Primary Medical Specialty for David Alster is listed as: Endocrinology
Approximate Years of Experience: 42
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2163614066
NPI #: 1164457339
NPI Created On: 07/12/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/22/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RE0101X
License Number:
22096
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Health Net of Arizona, Inc.
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Fine needle aspiration of first lesion using ultrasound guidance
2. Ultrasound of head and neck
3. Ambulatory continuous glucose (sugar) including interpretation and report for a minimum of 72 hours
4. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
5. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
10. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
12. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
13. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
14. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion

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).