Joseph Skaja practises General Surgery in Hibbing, Minnesota. Graduated from University of Minnesota Medical School in 2012, 14 years ago. Practices with Range Regional Health Services, a 346-clinician group, works from 2 locations and accepts Medicare assignment. Licensed in Minnesota.
Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.
From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is
enrolled in Medicare.
Medicare specialty
GENERAL SURGERY
Medical school
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL
Graduated
2012 (14 years in practice)
Group practice
Range Regional Health Services — 346 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment
Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
Procedures
From CMS Care Compare, which counts the procedures a clinician billed to
Original Medicare and Medicare Advantage over a recent 12-month period.
CMS reports a fixed list of common procedures, so this is not everything
the clinician does. Counts of 10 or fewer are given as a range, because
CMS withholds small numbers.
Colonoscopy
12 times · 42nd percentile
Mastectomy
1–10 times
Melanoma (skin cancer) excision
1–10 times
Removal of skin lesions
1–10 times
Removal or shaving of skin growth
1–10 times
Upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy for acid reflux
1–10 times
The percentile compares how often this clinician performed the procedure
with other clinicians who performed it, as CMS calculates it. It measures
volume, not outcomes or skill.
Medicare patients and services, 2024
From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar
year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that
mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller
here than it is.
Medicare patients
100
Services billed
184
a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age
68
Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross
billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any
drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.
Practises at
Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.