Howard Hines in Salisbury, Maryland

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: University Of Maryland School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1977
The Primary Medical Specialty for Howard Hines is listed as: Dermatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 47
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8729102314
NPI #: 1285685412
NPI Created On: 05/12/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/07/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207N00000X
License Number:
D20987
Listed Gender: Male

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

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Humana
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• Geisinger Health Plan
• 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. Tangential biopsy of single skin lesion
2. Punch biopsy of single skin lesion
3. Incisional biopsy of single skin lesion
4. Shaving of 0.6 centimeters to 1.0 centimeters skin growth of the trunk, arms, or legs
5. Shaving of 1.1 to 2.0 centimeters skin growth of the trunk, arms, or legs
6. Shaving of 0.6 centimeters to 1.0 centimeters skin growth of scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals
7. Shaving of 1.1 to 2.0 centimeters skin growth of scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals
8. Shaving of 0.6 centimeters to 1.0 centimeters skin growth of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth
9. Shaving of 1.1 to 2.0 centimeters skin growth of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth
10. Removal of growth (1.1 to 2.0 centimeters) of the trunk, arms, or legs
11. Removal of malignant growth (1.1 to 2.0 centimeters) of the trunk, arms, or legs
12. Removal of malignant growth (1.1 to 2.0 centimeters) of the scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals
13. Removal of malignant growth (0.6 to 1.0 centimeters) of the face, ears, eyelids, nose, or lips
14. Removal of malignant growth (1.1 to 2.0 centimeters) of the face, ears, eyelids, nose, or lips
15. Injection of up to 7 skin growths
16. Repair of wound (2.6 to 7.5 centimeters) of the scalp, underarms, trunk, arms, and/or legs
17. Repair of wound (2.6 to 7.5 centimeters) of scalp, arms, and/or legs
18. Tissue transfer repair of wound (10 sq centimeters or less) of the forehead, cheeks, chin, mouth, neck, underarms, genitals, hands, and/or feet
19. Destruction of skin growth
20. Destruction of 2-14 skin growths

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).