Melanie Kates in Healdsburg, California

Medical School: Northwestern University Feinberg Medical School
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for Melanie Kates is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4284826900
NPI #: 1518911965
NPI Created On: 05/20/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/07/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
G82351
Listed Gender: Female

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
2. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
3. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
4. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
5. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
7. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
8. Online digital evaluation and management service, for an established patient, for up to 7 days, cumulative time during the 7 days; 5-10 minutes
9. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
10. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
11. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
12. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
13. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
14. 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).