Joshua Sweaney in Lamar, Missouri

Medical School: Kansas City College Of Medicine And Surgery
Graduation Year: 2006
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joshua Sweaney is listed as: Neurosurgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 18
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0446431621
NPI #: 1457563587
NPI Created On: 05/03/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/16/2013
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207T00000X
License Number:
2012020354
Listed Gender: Male

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

• QualChoice Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc.
• Humana
• Medica Insurance Company
• Celtic Insurance Company
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: ENGL, English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injection of bone cement into body of lower spine bone accessed through the skin using imaging guidance
2. Fusion of spine bones with removal of disc at upper spinal column, anterior approach
3. Fusion of spine bones with removal of disc in upper spinal column below second vertebra of neck , anterior approach
4. Insertion of posterior spinal instrumentation for spinal stabilization, 3 to 6 vertebral segments
5. Insertion of anterior spinal instrumentation for spinal stabilization, 2 to 3 vertebral segments
6. Insertion of device into intervertebral disc space of spine and fusion of vertebrae
7. Partial removal of middle spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves
8. Partial removal of spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
10. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
12. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day

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).