Christopher Alcala Marquez in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Medical School: University Of Puerto Rico School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2008
The Primary Medical Specialty for Christopher Alcala Marquez is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 16
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0244474963
NPI #: 1669637542
NPI Created On: 07/21/2008
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 02/21/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207XS0117X
License Number:
56251
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Medica Health Plans of Wisconsin
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Harvest of bone marrow for spine surgery graft
2. Fusion of lower spine bones with removal of disc, posterior or posterolateral approach
3. Insertion of device into intervertebral disc space of spine and fusion of vertebrae
4. Partial removal of middle spine bone with release of spinal cord and/or nerves
5. X-ray of spine, 1 view
6. X-ray of upper spine, 4 or 5 views
7. X-ray of spine, 2 or 3 views
8. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, 2 or 3 views
9. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, minimum of 4 views
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
14. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion

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).