Caress Christian in Laurys Station, Pennsylvania

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2005
The Primary Medical Specialty for Caress Christian is listed as: Family Practice
Approximate Years of Experience: 19
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0042356149
NPI #: 1285806729
NPI Created On: 03/25/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/26/2019
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
MD437986
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.
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• First Priority Health
• UPMC Health Options, Inc.
• Geisinger Quality Options
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: Urdu, English, Hindi, Gujarati.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Hemoglobin a1c level
2. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
3. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
4. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
5. Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (aiiv4), inactivated, adjuvanted, preservative free, for injection into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
6. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
7. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
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, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
12. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
13. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
14. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
15. Counseling visit to discuss need for lung cancer screening using low dose ct scan (ldct) (service is for eligibility determination and shared decision making)
16. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
17. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
18. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
19. Brief communication technology-based service, e.g. virtual check-in, by a physician or other qualified health care professional who can report evaluation and management services, provided to an established patient, not originating from a related e/m servic

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).