Ming-chih Kao in Redwood City, California

Medical School: University Of Michigan Medical School
Graduation Year: 2007
The Primary Medical Specialty for Ming-chih Kao is listed as: Pain Management
Approximate Years of Experience: 17
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 0749346088
NPI #: 1922282870
NPI Created On: 12/27/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 06/07/2013
Primary Taxonomy Code: 2081P2900X
License Number:
A105859
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Taiwanese, Mandarin, Cantonese.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Injections of trigger points in 1 or 2 muscles
2. Injections of trigger points in 3 or more muscles
3. Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance
4. Ultrasonic guidance imaging supervision and interpretation for insertion of needle
5. Moderate sedation services by physician also performing a procedure, patient 5 years of age or older, first 15 minutes
6. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
7. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 60 minutes
8. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
9. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 40 minutes
11. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
12. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
13. Telehealth originating site facility fee

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).