James Spiegel MD in Santa Cruz, California

Medical School: University Of Maryland School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for James Spiegel MD is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0143117283
NPI #: 1962589929
NPI Created On: 11/01/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/14/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
G52840
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. Repair of knee joint
3. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
4. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
5. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
9. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 30 minutes per day
10. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
11. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
12. Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, 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).