Joseph Lifrak in Providence, Rhode Island

Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School Of Brown University
Graduation Year: 1994
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Lifrak is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 30
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7416091673
NPI #: 1093700726
NPI Created On: 09/19/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 04/22/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
261943
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Computer-assisted surgical navigational procedure for bone procedures
3. Repair of knee joint
4. Removal of one knee cartilage using an endoscope
5. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
6. X-ray of knee, 1 or 2 views
7. X-ray of knee, 3 views
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
12. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
13. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 80 mg
14. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg
15. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, preservative-free, extended-release, microsphere formulation, 1 mg
16. 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).