Russell Petrak MD in Merrillville, Indiana

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Rush Medical College Of Rush University
Graduation Year: 1980
The Primary Medical Specialty for Russell Petrak MD is listed as: Infectious Disease
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 44
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5294647921
NPI #: 1376539692
NPI Created On: 09/22/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/16/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RI0200X
License Number:
036-063551
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Celtic Insurance Company
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• McLaren Health Plan Community
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients in some locations.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis up to 1 hour
3. Infusion into a vein for therapy, prevention, or diagnosis
4. Infusion into a vein for therapy prevention or diagnosis additional sequential infusion up to 1 hour
5. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
6. Injection of different drug or substance into a vein for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
7. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour
8. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
11. Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg
12. Injection, dalbavancin, 5 mg
13. Injection, daptomycin, 1 mg
14. Injection, ertapenem sodium, 500 mg
15. Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg
16. Injection, vedolizumab, 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).