Karen Walker MD in Shreveport, Louisiana

Medical School: Louisiana State University School Of Medicine In Shreveport
Graduation Year: 1999
The Primary Medical Specialty for Karen Walker MD is listed as: Family Practice
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 25
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8921107996
NPI #: 1588701288
NPI Created On: 01/31/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/03/2008
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
201244
Listed Gender: Female

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
3. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
4. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
5. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Smoking and tobacco use intermediate counseling, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
10. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
11. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
12. Physician re-certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial imp
13. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
14. Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg
15. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
16. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 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).