Mark Blucher MD in Festus, Missouri

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
CARDIAC SURGERY

Medical School: New York University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1994
The Primary Medical Specialty for Mark Blucher MD is listed as: Thoracic Surgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 30
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 6305740051
NPI #: 1568433951
NPI Created On: 02/01/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/12/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208G00000X
License Number:
2003024387
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Celtic Insurance Company
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Removal of one lobe of lung
2. Insertion of permanent catheter for drainage of lung fluid
3. Removal of lymph nodes of mid-chest cavity using an endoscope
4. Removal of lymph nodes from chest cavity and breast bone
5. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
7. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
8. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
9. 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).