Peter Althausen MD in Reno, Nevada

Medical School: Tufts University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1999
The Primary Medical Specialty for Peter Althausen MD is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 25
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8426028879
NPI #: 1730170903
NPI Created On: 11/04/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 04/19/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
11539
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.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Second repair of surgical wound
2. Removal of deep bone implant
3. Insertion of hardware to broken thigh bone, accessed through the skin
4. Open treatment of broken thigh bone with insertion of hardware or prosthetic replacement
5. Surgical treatment of broken thigh bone
6. Application of cast, elbow to finger (short arm)
7. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
8. X-ray of elbow, minimum of 3 views
9. X-ray of wrist, minimum of 3 views
10. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 2-3 views
11. X-ray of femur, minimum 2 views
12. X-ray of knee, 1 or 2 views
13. X-ray of ankle, minimum of 3 views
14. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
15. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
18. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
19. Cast supplies, short arm cast, adult (11 years +), fiberglass

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).