Christopher Houdek in Hickory, North Carolina

Medical School: Michigan State University College Of Osteopathic Medicine
Graduation Year: 2007
The Primary Medical Specialty for Christopher Houdek is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 17
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0446490320
NPI #: 1760681290
NPI Created On: 07/14/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/04/2019
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
5101017267
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Health Net of Arizona, Inc.
• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Shaving of shoulder bone using an endoscope
3. Repair of shoulder rotator cuff using an endoscope
4. Mri scan of lower spinal canal before and after contrast
5. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
6. Mri scan of arm joint
7. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 2-3 views
8. X-ray of knee, 1 or 2 views
9. X-ray of knee, 3 views
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 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).