Arthur Hess in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Medical School: Tulane University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2009
The Primary Medical Specialty for Arthur Hess is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 15
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1456519172
NPI #: 1508092008
NPI Created On: 06/10/2009
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/12/2015
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
207602
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Vantage Health Plan, Inc.
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: ENGLISH, English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance
3. Replacement of thigh bone and hip joint prosthesis
4. Surgical treatment of broken thigh bone
5. X-ray of pelvis, 1 or 2 views
6. X-ray of pelvis, minimum of 3 views
7. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
8. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 2-3 views
9. X-ray of both hips with pelvis, 3-4 views
10. X-ray of femur, minimum 2 views
11. X-ray of knee, 3 views
12. X-ray of knee, 4 or more views
13. X-ray of ankle, minimum of 3 views
14. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
18. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
19. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 20 mg
20. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 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).