Melinda Butler MD in Preston, Maryland

Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
Graduation Year: 1995
The Primary Medical Specialty for Melinda Butler MD is listed as: Family Practice
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 29
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7012815939
NPI #: 1538196761
NPI Created On: 06/26/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 08/03/2010
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207Q00000X
License Number:
D0053255
Listed Gender: Female

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

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Humana
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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. Removal of impact ear wax, one ear
3. Urinalysis, manual test
4. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
5. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
6. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
7. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
8. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
12. Initial nursing facility visit, typically 35 minutes per day
13. Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 10 minutes per day
14. Subsequent nursing facility visit, typically 15 minutes per day
15. Nursing facility annual assessment, typically 30 minutes
16. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
17. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
18. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
19. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
20. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment

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).