Russell Buchanan MD in Waterloo, Iowa

Medical School: University Of California, Davis School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1993
The Primary Medical Specialty for Russell Buchanan MD is listed as: Neurosurgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 31
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 9032164629
NPI #: 1518908896
NPI Created On: 06/09/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/21/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207T00000X
License Number:
34843
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Medica Insurance Company
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Harvest of bone marrow for spine surgery graft
2. Incision of spine to correct deformity at lower spinal column
3. Fusion of spine bones, posterior or posterolateral approach
4. Fusion of lower spine bones with removal of disc, posterior or posterolateral approach
5. Insertion of posterior spinal instrumentation at base of neck for stabilization, 1 interspace
6. Insertion of posterior spinal instrumentation for spinal stabilization, 3 to 6 vertebral segments
7. Insertion of device into intervertebral disc space of spine and fusion of vertebrae
8. Computer-assisted spinal procedure
9. Partial removal of bone with release of spinal cord or spinal nerves of 1 interspace in lower spine
10. Partial removal of middle spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves
11. Partial removal of spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves
12. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 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).