Charles Gargano in Bellingham, Washington

Medical School: University Of Alabama School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1999
The Primary Medical Specialty for Charles Gargano is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 25
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4284711169
NPI #: 1689663288
NPI Created On: 10/17/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 09/30/2010
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
MD00042376
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. Testing for presence of drug
2. Automated urinalysis test
3. Hemoglobin a1c level
4. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
5. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
6. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
7. Routine electrocardiogram (ekg) with tracing using at least 12 leads
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
12. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
13. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
14. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
15. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
16. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
17. Brief communication technology-based service, e.g. virtual check-in, by a physician or other qualified health care professional who can report evaluation and management services, provided to an established patient, not originating from a related e/m servic

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).