Derrick Christopher in Chicago, Illinois

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2010
The Primary Medical Specialty for Derrick Christopher is listed as: General Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 14
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 9436462942
NPI #: 1427374891
NPI Created On: 04/10/2010
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/21/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208600000X
License Number:
036.144226
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Relocation of arm vein with connection to arm artery, open procedure
2. Connection of tube graft to vein and artery for dialysis
3. Tying or banding of a passage between an artery and vein
4. Transplantation of donor kidney
5. Ultrasound scan of veins of one arm or leg or limited including assessment of compression and functional maneuvers
6. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
7. Hospital observation care, typically 70 minutes
8. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
9. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
10. Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less

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).