Gerald Shute MD in Port St Lucie, Florida

Medical School: University Of Florida College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1994
The Primary Medical Specialty for Gerald Shute MD is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 30
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0547239600
NPI #: 1700847431
NPI Created On: 03/31/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 09/20/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
ME92898
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Replacement of thigh bone and hip joint prosthesis
3. Surgical treatment of broken thigh bone
4. Removal of cyst of membrane covering behind knee joint
5. Repair of knee joint
6. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
7. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 2-3 views
8. X-ray of knee, 3 views
9. X-ray of ankle, minimum of 3 views
10. Therapeutic exercise to develop strength, endurance, range of motion, and flexibility, each 15 minutes
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
14. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg
15. Hyaluronan or derivitive, genvisc 850, for intra-articular injection, 1 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).