Peter Hughes in Stamford, Connecticut

Medical School: New York Medical College
Graduation Year: 1972
The Primary Medical Specialty for Peter Hughes is listed as: Orthopedic Surgery
Approximate Years of Experience: 52
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5294877700
NPI #: 1942399886
NPI Created On: 10/11/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 05/17/2016
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207X00000X
License Number:
01884
Listed Gender: Male

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Aspiration and/or injection of major joint or joint capsule with recording and reporting using ultrasound guidance
3. Replacement of thigh bone and hip joint prosthesis
4. Repair of knee joint
5. X-ray of lower and sacral spine, minimum of 4 views
6. X-ray of shoulder, minimum of 2 views
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. X-ray of knee, 4 or more views
11. X-ray of ankle, minimum of 3 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. Initial hospital inpatient care, typically 50 minutes per day
18. 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
19. Injection, betamethasone acetate 3 mg and betamethasone sodium phosphate 3 mg
20. Hyaluronan or derivative, orthovisc, 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).