Karl Christoffersen in Santa Cruz, California

Medical School: Saint Louis University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1991
The Primary Medical Specialty for Karl Christoffersen is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 33
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4880767151
NPI #: 1407835556
NPI Created On: 01/16/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/03/2012
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
G74982
Listed Gender: Male

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Replacement of thigh bone and hip joint prosthesis
3. Surgical treatment of broken thigh bone
4. Repair of knee joint
5. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
11. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
12. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg
13. Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, 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).