Brian Curtis MD in Lamar, Missouri

Medical School: Tufts University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1986
The Primary Medical Specialty for Brian Curtis MD is listed as: Neurosurgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 38
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 9830174465
NPI #: 1700810876
NPI Created On: 07/11/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/09/2017
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207T00000X
License Number:
2006034006
Listed Gender: Male

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

• QualChoice Life & Health Insurance Company, Inc.
• Humana
• Medica Insurance Company
• Celtic Insurance Company
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: ENGL, English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Donor bone graft for spine surgery
2. Injection of bone cement into body of lower spine bone accessed through the skin using imaging guidance
3. Fusion of spine bones with removal of disc at upper spinal column, anterior approach
4. Fusion of spine bones with removal of disc in upper spinal column below second vertebra of neck , anterior approach
5. Fusion of lower spine bones with removal of disc, posterior or posterolateral approach
6. Insertion of anterior spinal instrumentation for spinal stabilization, 2 to 3 vertebral segments
7. Insertion of device into intervertebral disc space of spine and fusion of vertebrae
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per day
11. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 15 minutes per day
12. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day

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).