Dona Alvarez in Oakland, Maryland

Medical School: West Virginia University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1984
The Primary Medical Specialty for Dona Alvarez is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 40
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7618145053
NPI #: 1013087147
NPI Created On: 11/08/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/08/2007
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
D0038801
Listed Gender: Female

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

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Humana
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• UPMC Health Options, Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane
2. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
3. Surgical treatment of broken thigh bone
4. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, 2 or 3 views
5. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
6. X-ray of femur, minimum 2 views
7. X-ray of knee, 1 or 2 views
8. X-ray of ankle, minimum of 3 views
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
14. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
15. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 35 minutes per day
16. Emergency department visit, problem of high severity
17. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
18. Hyaluronan or derivative, hyalgan or supartz, 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).