Lawrence Schainker in Lanham, Maryland

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Saint Louis University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1966
The Primary Medical Specialty for Lawrence Schainker is listed as: Rheumatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 58
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 6800958299
NPI #: 1790781888
NPI Created On: 06/23/2005
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/16/2012
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RR0500X
License Number:
D0014459
Listed Gender: Male

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

• CareFirst BlueChoice, Inc.
• Humana
• Group Hospitalization and Medical Services Inc.
• 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 major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. Complete ultrasound of joint of arm or leg
4. Partial ultrasound of joint or other non-blood vessel structure of arm or leg
5. Bone density measurement using dedicated x-ray machine
6. Blood test, basic group of blood chemicals
7. Blood test, comprehensive group of blood chemicals
8. Manual urinalysis test with examination using microscope
9. Ferritin (blood protein) level
10. Blood test, thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh)
11. Liver enzyme (sgot), level
12. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
13. Red blood cell sedimentation rate, to detect inflammation
14. Measurement c-reactive protein for detection of infection or inflammation
15. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
18. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
19. Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg
20. Hyaluronan or derivative, durolane, for intra-articular injection, 1 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).