Joseph Caruso MD in Granger, Indiana

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
FAMILY PRACTICE

Medical School: Duke University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1985
The Primary Medical Specialty for Joseph Caruso MD is listed as: Hospitalist
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 39
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 3375648694
NPI #: 1598763203
NPI Created On: 07/07/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 04/28/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207PT0002X
License Number:
01035309A
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Celtic Insurance Company
• Humana
• CareSource
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish, Italian.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. Automated urinalysis test
4. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
5. Pneumococcal vaccine for injection into muscle
6. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
7. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
11. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
12. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
13. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
14. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
15. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 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).