Charles Chalko DO in Weymouth, Massachusetts

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
NEPHROLOGY

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1984
The Primary Medical Specialty for Charles Chalko DO is listed as: Internal Medicine
Credentials: DO
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 40
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2365481645
NPI #: 1548218126
NPI Created On: 05/05/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/13/2014
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
76091
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Blood test, clotting time
3. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
4. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
5. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
6. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) with tracing using at least 12 leads
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Hospital observation care on day of discharge
11. Hospital observation care, typically 50 minutes
12. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
13. Subsequent observation care, typically 25 minutes per day
14. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
15. Hospital discharge day management, 30 minutes or less
16. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
17. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
18. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
19. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
20. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment

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).