Joseph Desimone in Lebanon, New Hampshire

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
THORACIC SURGERY

Medical School: University Of Connecticut School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1997
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Desimone is listed as: Cardiac Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 27
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4880788181
NPI #: 1528118643
NPI Created On: 01/11/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/08/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208G00000X
License Number:
11128
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Celtic Insurance Company
• Humana
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of NE
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Replacement of aortic valve with prosthetic valve, accessed through the skin
2. Replacement of aortic valve using artificial valve on heart-lung machine, open procedure
3. Harvest of veins for coronary artery bypass procedure using an endoscope
4. Combined multiple vein and artery heart artery bypasses
5. Combined multiple vein and artery heart artery bypasses
6. Heart artery bypass to repair one artery
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
9. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 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).