Dante Vacca in Reno, Nevada

Medical School: University Of Nevada School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for Dante Vacca is listed as: Neurosurgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2365568235
NPI #: 1659326403
NPI Created On: 05/23/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/25/2019
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207T00000X
License Number:
5826
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Health Plan of Nevada, Inc.
• Humana
• SilverSummit Healthplan, Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish, None.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of posterior spinal instrumentation at base of neck for stabilization, 1 interspace
2. Partial removal of middle spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves
3. Partial removal of spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves
4. X-ray of upper spine, 4 or 5 views
5. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, 2 or 3 views
6. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, minimum of 4 views
7. Mri scan of upper spinal canal
8. Mri scan of lower spinal canal
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
13. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
14. Injection, gadoterate meglumine, 0.1 ml

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).