Al Benson III MD in Chicago, Illinois

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY

Medical School: State University Of New York At Buffalo School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1976
The Primary Medical Specialty for Al Benson III MD is listed as: Medical Oncology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 48
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2860446473
NPI #: 1891761532
NPI Created On: 02/23/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/16/2009
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RX0202X
License Number:
036-059058
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis up to 1 hour
2. Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis
3. Infusion into a vein for therapy prevention or diagnosis additional sequential infusion up to 1 hour
4. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
5. Injection of different drug or substance into a vein for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
6. Application of on-body injector for injection under skin
7. Non-hormonal anti-neoplastic chemotherapy beneath the skin or into muscle
8. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein using push technique
9. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour
10. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein
11. Infusion of different chemotherapy drug or substance into a vein up to 1 hour
12. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
16. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
17. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
18. Chemotherapy administration, intravenous infusion technique; initiation of infusion in the office/clinic setting using office/clinic pump/supplies, with continuation of the infusion in the community setting (e.g., home, domiciliary, rest home or assisted l
19. Injection, denosumab, 1 mg
20. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 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).