George Azar in Columbus, North Carolina

Medical School: University Of Massachusetts Medical School
Graduation Year: 2002
The Primary Medical Specialty for George Azar is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 22
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8820199409
NPI #: 1164576369
NPI Created On: 01/23/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/18/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
2006-01896
Listed Gender: Male

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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: ENG, English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane
2. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
3. Repair of knee joint
4. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, 2 or 3 views
5. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
6. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 1 view
7. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 2-3 views
8. X-ray of knee, 3 views
9. X-ray of knee, 4 or more views
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 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

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).