Joseph Skender in Bingham Farms, Michigan

Medical School: Wayne State University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1985
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Skender is listed as: Rheumatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 39
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1951447697
NPI #: 1255420766
NPI Created On: 10/12/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/17/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RR0500X
License Number:
4301406480
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Molina Healthcare of Michigan, Inc.
• Humana
• Total Health Care USA, Inc.
• McLaren Health Plan Community
• 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. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
3. X-ray of hand, 2 views
4. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 1 view
5. X-ray of knee, 1 or 2 views
6. X-ray of both knees, standing, front to back view
7. Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis up to 1 hour
8. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour
9. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
15. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
16. Subsequent hospital inpatient care, typically 25 minutes per day
17. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
18. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
19. Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use
20. Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 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).