Joel Kurtz MD in Bayonne, New Jersey

Medical School: Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joel Kurtz MD is listed as: Gastroenterology
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4385612589
NPI #: 1205882578
NPI Created On: 05/26/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 04/29/2008
Primary Taxonomy Code: 174400000X
License Number:
25MA04511700
Listed Gender: Male

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

• AmeriHealth New Jersey
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Oscar Garden State Insurance Corporation
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Biopsy of the esophagus, stomach, and/or upper small bowel using an endoscope
2. Diagnostic examination of large bowel using an endoscope
3. Biopsy of large bowel using an endoscope
4. Removal of polyps or growths of large bowel using an endoscope
5. Stool analysis for blood
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
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. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
13. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 70 minutes per day
14. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day

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).