James Christensen in Reno, Nevada

Medical School: Creighton University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1971
The Primary Medical Specialty for James Christensen is listed as: Hand Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 53
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3870486632
NPI #: 1578544169
NPI Created On: 11/10/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/20/2021
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
G23975
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Health Plan of Nevada, Inc.
• Humana
• SilverSummit Healthplan, Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane
2. Aspiration and/or injection of small joint or joint capsule
3. Aspiration and/or injection of medium joint or joint capsule
4. Relocation of tendon of forearm and/or wrist
5. Removal of bone joints between wrist and fingers
6. Incision of tendon covering
7. Application of cast to hand and lower forearm
8. Release of wrist ligament using an endoscope
9. Release and/or relocation of median nerve of hand
10. X-ray of wrist, 2 views
11. X-ray of wrist, minimum of 3 views
12. X-ray of hand, 2 views
13. X-ray of hand, minimum of 3 views
14. X-ray of fingers, minimum of 2 views
15. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
18. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 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).