Hector Cardenas MD in San Diego, California

Medical School: University Of California, San Francisco School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1995
The Primary Medical Specialty for Hector Cardenas MD is listed as: Internal Medicine
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 29
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3870499932
NPI #: 1649383647
NPI Created On: 08/16/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/09/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
A62661
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, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. Urinalysis, manual test
4. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
5. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
6. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
10. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
11. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
12. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
13. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
14. 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).