Fernando De Castro in Lexington, Kentucky

Medical School: University Of Missouri, Kansas City, School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1989
The Primary Medical Specialty for Fernando De Castro is listed as: Dermatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 35
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 8426035619
NPI #: 1558364976
NPI Created On: 05/31/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 10/06/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207N00000X
License Number:
31195
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Tangential biopsy of single skin lesion
2. Tangential biopsy of additional skin lesion
3. Punch biopsy of single skin lesion
4. Shaving of 0.5 centimeters or less skin growth of the trunk, arms, or legs
5. Shaving of 0.6 centimeters to 1.0 centimeters skin growth of the trunk, arms, or legs
6. Shaving of 0.6 centimeters to 1.0 centimeters skin growth of scalp, neck, hands, feet, or genitals
7. Shaving of 0.5 centimeters or less skin growth of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth
8. Shaving of 0.6 centimeters to 1.0 centimeters skin growth of face, ears, eyelids, nose, lips, or mouth
9. Destruction of skin growth
10. Destruction of 2-14 skin growths
11. Destruction of up to 14 skin growths
12. Destruction of malignant growth (0.6 to 1.0 centimeters) of trunk, arms, or legs
13. Destruction of malignant growth (1.1 to 2.0 centimeters) of trunk, arms, or legs
14. Destruction of malignant growth (2.1 to 3.0 centimeters) of trunk, arms, or legs
15. Biopsy of ear
16. Surgical pathology consultation and report
17. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
18. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
19. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
20. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 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).