Michael Thompson in La Jolla, California

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY

Medical School: Wayne State University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1988
The Primary Medical Specialty for Michael Thompson is listed as: Hand Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 36
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3870646888
NPI #: 1356313167
NPI Created On: 02/06/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 09/25/2019
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207XS0106X
License Number:
G88489
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injection of carpal tunnel
2. Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane
3. Aspiration and/or injection of small joint or joint capsule
4. Aspiration and/or injection of medium joint or joint capsule
5. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
6. Open treatment of broken of lower forearm or growth plate separation with insertion of hardware 3 or more fragments
7. Application of cast, elbow to finger (short arm)
8. Application of long arm splint (shoulder to hand)
9. Application of non-moveable, short arm splint (forearm to hand)
10. Release and/or relocation of median nerve of hand
11. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) with tracing using at least 12 leads
12. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
13. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
18. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg
19. Cast supplies, short arm cast, adult (11 years +), fiberglass
20. Cast supplies, long arm splint, adult (11 years +), fiberglass

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).