Richard Charles in Buffalo, New York

Medical School: State University Of New York At Buffalo School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1996
The Primary Medical Specialty for Richard Charles is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 28
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3274678750
NPI #: 1588629216
NPI Created On: 04/18/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/12/2008
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
213322
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• 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. Blood test, lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides)
3. Hemoglobin a1c level
4. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
5. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
6. Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (aiiv4), inactivated, adjuvanted, preservative free, for injection into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
7. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
8. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
9. Photography of the retina
10. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
11. Brief emotional or behavioral assessment
12. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
13. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
16. Smoking and tobacco use intermediate counseling, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
17. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
18. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
19. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
20. Administration of influenza virus vaccine

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).