Friendship Ambulatory Surgery Center, LLC

Primary specialty

Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/CenterTaxonomy code 261QA1903X

License

A1131 Issued in MD

Legal business name

FRIENDSHIP AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER, LLC

Doing business as

Friendship Ambulatory Surgery Center
The Friendship Ambulatory Surgery Center, LLC

Practice address

5550 Friendship Blvd Ste 270
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7297

Phone

(301) 215-7347

Fax

(301) 715-7345

NPI assigned

Jul 4, 2006

Organization subpart

No

Registry information is reported by the provider to CMS and is not verified. About this source

Authorized official

Name

Steven Madreperla, MD, PHD

Title

President and Ceo

Phone

(908) 458-8333

Specialties & licenses 1

Addresses

Other identifiers 12

Other names 2

• Friendship Ambulatory Surgery Center Doing business as
• The Friendship Ambulatory Surgery Center, LLC Doing business as

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in DC

Enrollment records 1

Listed as

The Friendship Ambulatory Surgery CenterCCN 21C0001131

Medicare certification status

ActiveFrom the Provider of Services file

These CMS records do not include an NPI. They are shown because their name and street address match this provider’s.

CLIA laboratory certificates

The complete NPPES record for this NPI in the NPI Registry API format.

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• Tracy I Freeman, MD
• Robert Jeffrey Freishtat, MD, MPH
• Annie Larue Frentsos, LMSW
• Ronan John Freyne, D.M.D.
• Rachel Friedman, MSOTR/L, CHT
• Friendship Dental Group
• Friendship Heights Endoscopy ASC
• Friendship Pediatrics, PA
• Friendship Pediatrics, PA
• Richard C Fritsch, PH.D.

• Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center in Chevy Chase, MD
• Providers in Chevy Chase, MD by specialty
• Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center in Maryland

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• Medicare enrollment (CMS PECOS): enrollments, PAC IDs and benefit reassignments.
• Medicare Care Compare (CMS): clinician profile, group practices, facility affiliations, MIPS scores and star ratings.
• National Provider Directory (CMS): practice roles, locations, licenses, networks and endpoints.

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