Sterling Hedrick in Columbus, Ohio

Additional Medical Specialties Include:
INTERNAL MEDICINE

Medical School: Ohio State University College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1973
The Primary Medical Specialty for Sterling Hedrick is listed as: Rheumatology
Approximate Years of Experience: 51
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 9537192794
NPI #: 1174501936
NPI Created On: 01/03/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 11/09/2020
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207RR0500X
License Number:
35039963
Listed Gender: Male

---

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

• Humana
• Medicare

Languages spoken by staff include: English.

---

Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
3. Blood test, comprehensive group of blood chemicals
4. Albumin (protein) level
5. Blood creatinine level
6. Liver enzyme (sgot), level
7. Liver enzyme (sgpt), level
8. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
9. Red blood cell sedimentation rate, to detect inflammation
10. Measurement c-reactive protein for detection of infection or inflammation
11. Tuberculosis test
12. Non-hormonal anti-neoplastic chemotherapy beneath the skin or into muscle
13. Infusion of chemotherapy into a vein up to 1 hour
14. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
15. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
16. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
17. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
18. Injection, denosumab, 1 mg
19. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg
20. Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg

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).