Frank Kessler MD in Brewster, New York

Medical School: Jefferson Medical College Of Thomas Jefferson University
Graduation Year: 1983
The Primary Medical Specialty for Frank Kessler MD is listed as: Internal Medicine
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 41
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 7113930728
NPI #: 1679500086
NPI Created On: 06/28/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 09/17/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
026499
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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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. Urinalysis, manual 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. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Smoking and tobacco use intermediate counseling, greater than 3 minutes up to 10 minutes
11. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
12. Transitional care management services, highly complexity, requiring face-to-face visits within 7 days of discharge
13. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
14. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
15. 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
16. Initial preventive physical examination; face-to-face visit, services limited to new beneficiary during the first 12 months of medicare enrollment
17. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
18. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent 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).