Charles Petersen MD in Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CRITICAL CARE (INTENSIVISTS)

Medical School: Tufts University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1996
The Primary Medical Specialty for Charles Petersen MD is listed as: Pulmonary Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 28
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1557333788
NPI #: 1285684183
NPI Created On: 05/11/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/22/2016
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RP1001X
License Number:
MD073487L
Listed Gender: Male

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

• AmeriHealth New Jersey
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Capital Advantage Assurance Company
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• AmeriHealth HMO, Inc.
• Highmark Inc.
• First Priority Health
• Geisinger Health Plan
• UPMC Health Options, Inc.
• Geisinger Quality Options
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Irrigation and suction of lung airways to obtain cells using an endoscope
2. Biopsy of lung airways using an endoscope
3. Examination of lung airways using an endoscope with imaging guidance and ultrasound
4. Measurement and graphic recording of total and timed exhaled air capacity
5. Measurement and graphic recording of the amount and speed of breathed air, before and following medication administration
6. Test for exercise-induced lung stress
7. Determination of lung volumes using plethysmography
8. Determination of lung volumes using gas dilution or washout
9. Measurement of lung diffusing capacity
10. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab
11. Sleep monitoring of patient (6 years or older) in sleep lab with continued pressured respiratory assistance by mask or breathing tube
12. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
18. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
19. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
20. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day

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).