Joseph Shaeffer in New Britain, Pennsylvania

Medical School: Georgetown University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1977
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Shaeffer is listed as: Family Practice
Approximate Years of Experience: 47
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 9638367246
NPI #: 1275525768
NPI Created On: 08/19/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/11/2011
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
MD021996E
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
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• AmeriHealth HMO, Inc.
• Humana
• Highmark Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: German, English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
3. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
4. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
5. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
6. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
7. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
8. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
9. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
10. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
11. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
12. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit

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).