Richard Nelson in Bettendorf, Iowa

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 2003
The Primary Medical Specialty for Richard Nelson is listed as: Endocrinology
Approximate Years of Experience: 21
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 1355492398
NPI #: 1255541843
NPI Created On: 05/23/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/20/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RE0101X
License Number:
3808
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Medica Insurance Company
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Fine needle aspiration of first lesion using ultrasound guidance
2. Automated urinalysis test
3. Urine microalbumin (protein) analysis
4. Blood glucose (sugar) test performed by hand-held instrument
5. Hemoglobin a1c level
6. Ambulatory continuous glucose (sugar) including interpretation and report for a minimum of 72 hours
7. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
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 10 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
14. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
15. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
16. Injection, denosumab, 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).