Dessie Athens in Palo Alto, California

Medical School: Southern California College Of Optometry
Graduation Year: 1987
The Primary Medical Specialty for Dessie Athens is listed as: Optometry
Approximate Years of Experience: 37
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7416018601
NPI #: 1598853103
NPI Created On: 10/10/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/12/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 152W00000X
License Number:
OPT8660T
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. Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, new patient, 1 or more visits
2. Eye and medical examination for diagnosis and treatment, established patient, 1 or more visits
3. Measurement of eye muscles to detect deviation of eyeball
4. Diagnostic imaging of optic nerve of eye
5. Diagnostic imaging of retina
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes

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).