Kara Friend in Norfolk, Virginia

Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Graduation Year: 2008
The Primary Medical Specialty for Kara Friend is listed as: General Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 16
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0345466942
NPI #: 1598926842
NPI Created On: 06/19/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/21/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208600000X
License Number:
MD454473
Listed Gender: Female

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

• AmeriHealth New Jersey
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• AmeriHealth HMO, Inc.
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• McLaren Health Plan Community
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Tissue transfer repair of wound (10 sq centimeters or less) of the trunk
2. Partial removal of breast
3. Partial removal of breast and underarm lymph nodes
4. Total removal of breast
5. Lymph node imaging during surgery
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 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).