Fernando Castro in West Columbia, South Carolina

Medical School: Sorry, his university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1998
The Primary Medical Specialty for Fernando Castro is listed as: Rheumatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 26
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2264625706
NPI #: 1518063718
NPI Created On: 09/15/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/15/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
2005020365
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish, SPANISH; CASTILIAN.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. X-ray of chest, 2 views
4. X-ray of hand, minimum of 3 views
5. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
6. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour
7. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein
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 15 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
12. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
13. Brief communication technology-based service, e.g. virtual check-in, by a physician or other qualified health care professional who can report evaluation and management services, provided to an established patient, not originating from a related e/m servic
14. Injection, denosumab, 1 mg
15. Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg
16. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 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).