Jose Alvarez MD in Melbourne, Florida

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
ANESTHESIOLOGY

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2001
The Primary Medical Specialty for Jose Alvarez MD is listed as: Interventional Pain Management
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 23
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4688778483
NPI #: 1912013699
NPI Created On: 08/22/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 02/20/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208100000X
License Number:
ME94890
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, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Injection procedure into sacroiliac joint for anesthetic or steroid
3. Injection of substance into spinal canal of upper or middle back using imaging guidance
4. Injection of substance into spinal canal of lower back or sacrum using imaging guidance
5. Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance
6. Injections of anesthetic and/or steroid drug into lower or sacral spine nerve root using imaging guidance
7. Injections of upper or middle spine facet joint using imaging guidance
8. Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance
9. Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance
10. Injections of lower or sacral spine facet joint using imaging guidance
11. Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves using imaging guidance
12. Destruction of lower or sacral spinal facet joint nerves with imaging guidance
13. Fluoroscopic guidance for insertion of needle
14. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
15. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
18. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
19. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg
20. Hyaluronan or derivative, euflexxa, for intra-articular injection, per dose

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).