Caroline Tahara in White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Medical School: Creighton University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1997
The Primary Medical Specialty for Caroline Tahara is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 27
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 2062691496
NPI #: 1669446423
NPI Created On: 02/16/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 07/08/2007
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
42576
Listed Gender: Female

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

• Medica Health Plans of Wisconsin
• 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 impacted ear wax by washing
3. Screening digital tomography of both breasts
4. Mammography of both breasts
5. Manual urinalysis test with examination using microscope
6. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
7. Blood test, clotting time
8. Influenza virus vaccine, quadrivalent (aiiv4), inactivated, adjuvanted, preservative free, for injection into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
9. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
10. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
15. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
16. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
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. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit

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).