Christopher Hamilton in Bakersfield, California

Medical School: University Of California, Geffen School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1988
The Primary Medical Specialty for Christopher Hamilton is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 36
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7113826223
NPI #: 1598795130
NPI Created On: 07/03/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/10/2015
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
G76486
Listed Gender: Male

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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. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance
3. Prosthetic repair of shoulder joint
4. Repair of knee joint
5. Extensive removal of shoulder joint tissue using an endoscope
6. Shaving of shoulder bone using an endoscope
7. Repair of shoulder rotator cuff using an endoscope
8. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
9. X-ray of knee, 3 views
10. X-ray of knee, 4 or more views
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
12. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
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).