Esther Blanks-sheard in Concord, North Carolina

Medical School: Wake Forest University School Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 2004
The Primary Medical Specialty for Esther Blanks-sheard is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 20
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 4981796828
NPI #: 1639397680
NPI Created On: 04/23/2007
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/18/2023
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
2006-01813
Listed Gender: Female

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

• Blue Cross Blue Shield
• Humana
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: ENG, English.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Automated urinalysis test
3. Blood glucose (sugar) test performed by hand-held instrument
4. Blood test, clotting time
5. Vaccine for influenza for injection into muscle
6. Vaccine for influenza for administration into muscle, 0.5 ml dosage
7. Vaccine for pneumococcal polysaccharide for injection beneath the skin or into muscle, patient 2 years or older
8. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
9. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
13. Physician telephone patient service, 5-10 minutes of medical discussion
14. Physician telephone patient service, 11-20 minutes of medical discussion
15. Physician telephone patient service, 21-30 minutes of medical discussion
16. Administration of influenza virus vaccine
17. Administration of pneumococcal vaccine
18. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit

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).