Shearin Higgs in Lawrenceville, Georgia

Medical School: Ohio State University College Of Medicine
Graduation Year: 1999
The Primary Medical Specialty for Shearin Higgs is listed as: Internal Medicine
Approximate Years of Experience: 25
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 5294875563
NPI #: 1740258896
NPI Created On: 03/14/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 01/27/2015
Primary Taxonomy Code: 207R00000X
License Number:
0101235177
Listed Gender: Male

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

• Humana
• Medicare

Languages spoken by staff include: English, Spanish.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Aspiration and/or injection of large joint or joint capsule
2. Bone density measurement using dedicated x-ray machine
3. Urinalysis, manual test
4. Blood glucose (sugar) test performed by hand-held instrument
5. Hemoglobin a1c level
6. Blood test, clotting time
7. Routine ekg using at least 12 leads including interpretation and report
8. Injection beneath the skin or into muscle for therapy, diagnosis, or prevention
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 45 minutes
10. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 5 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient office or other outpatient, visit typically 25 minutes
14. Physician certification for medicare-covered home health services under a home health plan of care (patient not present), including contacts with home health agency and review of reports of patient status required by physicians to affirm the initial implem
15. Annual wellness visit; includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), initial visit
16. Annual wellness visit, includes a personalized prevention plan of service (pps), subsequent visit
17. Injection, ceftriaxone sodium, per 250 mg
18. Injection, methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg
19. Injection, dexamethasone sodium phosphate, 1 mg
20. Injection, vitamin b-12 cyanocobalamin, up to 1000 mcg

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).