Jose Ortega MD in Trussville, Alabama

Medical School: University Of Alabama School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1996
The Primary Medical Specialty for Jose Ortega MD is listed as: Sports Medicine
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 28
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0244228351
NPI #: 1912974833
NPI Created On: 03/01/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 02/07/2013
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RS0010X
License Number:
21877
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injections of tendon sheath, ligament, or muscle membrane
2. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
3. Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance
4. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, 2 or 3 views
5. X-ray of shoulder, 1 view
6. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
7. X-ray of hip with pelvis, 2-3 views
8. X-ray of knee, 4 or more views
9. X-ray of ankle, 2 views
10. X-ray of ankle, minimum of 3 views
11. X-ray of foot, 2 views
12. X-ray of foot, minimum of 3 views
13. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
14. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
16. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
17. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
18. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg
19. Hyaluronan or derivative, synvisc or synvisc-one, for intra-articular injection, 1 mg
20. Hyaluronan or derivative, gel-one, for intra-articular injection, per dose

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).