Christopher Prato in Gastonia, North Carolina

Medical School: Medical College Of Wisconsin
Graduation Year: 1997
The Primary Medical Specialty for Christopher Prato is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 27
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3678653227
NPI #: 1376538686
NPI Created On: 09/13/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/11/2014
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
44155
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: ENG.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Repair of knee joint
3. X-ray of pelvis, 1 or 2 views
4. X-ray of pelvis, minimum of 3 views
5. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
6. Mri scan of arm joint
7. X-ray of knee, 1 or 2 views
8. X-ray of knee, 3 views
9. Mri scan of leg joint
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
14. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, preservative-free, extended-release, microsphere formulation, 1 mg
15. Hyaluronan or derivative, hymovis, for intra-articular injection, 1 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).