Melissa Lazar in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Medical School: Jefferson Medical College Of Thomas Jefferson University
Graduation Year: 2006
The Primary Medical Specialty for Melissa Lazar is listed as: General Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 18
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 9234394339
NPI #: 1437318763
NPI Created On: 06/02/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/18/2013
Primary Taxonomy Code: 208600000X
License Number:
MT189310
Listed Gender: Female

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Highmark Health Insurance Company
• Highmark Inc.
• UPMC Health Options, Inc.
• Geisinger Health Plan
• Geisinger Quality Options
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Partial removal of breast
2. Biopsy or removal of lymph nodes of under the arm, open procedure
3. Lymph node imaging during surgery
4. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
5. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes

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).