Douglas Benton in Flint, Michigan

Medical School: Des Moines University Of Osteopathic Medicine And Health Sciences
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for Douglas Benton is listed as: Family Practice
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8820133739
NPI #: 1730281619
NPI Created On: 09/02/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/10/2008
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
5101008533
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. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. Automated urinalysis test
4. Stool analysis for blood to screen for colon tumors
5. Creatinine level to test for kidney function or muscle injury
6. Blood glucose (sugar) test performed by hand-held instrument
7. Hemoglobin a1c level
8. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
9. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
10. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
11. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
12. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
13. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
14. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Smoking and tobacco use intermediate counseling, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
18. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
19. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
20. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge

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).