Melissa Hughes in Buffalo, New York

Medical School: Icahn School Of Medicine At Mount Sinai
Graduation Year: 2008
The Primary Medical Specialty for Melissa Hughes is listed as: General Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 16
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4486897550
NPI #: 1700049673
NPI Created On: 07/09/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/26/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 2086X0206X
License Number:
257909
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, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Partial removal of breast
2. Biopsy or removal of lymph nodes of under the arm, open procedure
3. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
4. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
5. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
6. Infectious agent detection by nucleic acid (dna or rna); severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2) (coronavirus disease [covid-19]), amplified probe technique, making use of high throughput technologies as described by cms-2020-01-r

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).