Shikha Merchia MD in Braintree, Massachusetts

Medical School: Sorry, her university is not listed
Graduation Year: 1997
The Primary Medical Specialty for Shikha Merchia MD is listed as: Internal Medicine
Credentials: MD
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 27
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 6608842018
NPI #: 1689648461
NPI Created On: 02/16/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 03/06/2019
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
231507
Listed Gender: Female

---

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

• Humana
• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Urdu, Sindhi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Marathi, Hindi, Gujarati.

---

Services and Procedures include:

1. Insertion of needle into vein for collection of blood sample
2. Blood test, basic group of blood chemicals
3. Blood test, comprehensive group of blood chemicals
4. Blood test, lipids (cholesterol and triglycerides)
5. Manual urinalysis test with examination using microscope
6. Automated urinalysis test
7. Urine microalbumin (protein) level
8. Vitamin d-3 level
9. Blood creatinine level
10. Cyanocobalamin (vitamin b-12) level
11. Hemoglobin a1c level
12. Blood test, thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh)
13. Liver enzyme (sgot), level
14. Liver enzyme (sgpt), level
15. Urea nitrogen level to assess kidney function
16. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
17. Complete blood cell count (red cells, white blood cell, platelets), automated test
18. Blood test, clotting time
19. Red blood cell sedimentation rate, to detect inflammation
20. Measurement c-reactive protein for detection of infection or inflammation

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).