Sara Beth Shields Tarwater

Primary specialty

Surgery PhysicianTaxonomy code 208600000X

License

90678 Issued in SC

Practice address

1014 Huger Dr
Georgetown, SC 29440-3322

Phone

(843) 520-8780

NPI assigned

May 3, 2017

Last updated

Nov 13, 2025By the provider in NPPES

Sex

Female

Sole proprietor

No

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

Specialties & licenses 1

Addresses

Electronic endpoints 4

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in SC

Eligible to order & refer

• Part B services: Yes
• Medical equipment: Yes
• Home health: Yes
• Power mobility devices: Yes
• Hospice: Yes

Green means eligible to order or refer.

Enrollment records 1

Specialty

General Surgery

Education

University of South Alabama College of Medicine, 2017

Medicare assignment

Accepts the Medicare-approved amount as payment in full

Group practices

Georgetown Physician Associates, LLCGroup PAC ID 2365697398, 221 clinicians

Practice addresses (Care Compare)

Hospital & facility affiliations

• Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital Hospital, Murrells Inlet, SC, CCN 420098
• Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital Hospital, Georgetown, SC, CCN 420020
• Musc Medical Center Hospital, Charleston, SC, CCN 420004

Procedures performed for Medicare patients

Medicare enrollment (NPD)

Enrolled

Credentials

Doctor of Medicine

Practice roles

Locations

Organizations this provider is connected to: Medicare benefit reassignments (the organization bills Medicare for this provider’s services), Care Compare group memberships, National Provider Directory roles and organizations whose NPPES authorized official is this provider.

• Georgetown Physician Associates, LLC

  dba Tidelands Health Family Medicine

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Murrells Inlet, SC
  • NPI 1235475930
  Medicare reassignment Care Compare group NPD
• Georgetown Physician Associates LLC

  dba Tidelands Health Group

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1881410587

  Surgery

  NPD
• Georgetown Physician Associates, LLC

  dba Tidelands Health Breast Center

  • Surgery Physician
  • Murrells Inlet, SC
  • NPI 1528482015
  NPD
• Georgetown Physician Associates

  dba Tidelands Health Gastroenterology

  • Gastroenterology Physician
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1093139420
  NPD (past)
• Georgetown Physician Services, LLC

  dba Waccamaw Family Medicine

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Pawley's Island, SC
  • NPI 1962691402
  NPD (past)

Hospitals and other facilities this clinician is affiliated with according to Medicare Care Compare.

• Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  dba Tidelands Health Skilled Care

  • Skilled Nursing Facility
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1881307056

  Hospital

  Care Compare affiliation
• Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  dba Tidelands Georgetown Memorial Hospital

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Georgetown, SC
  • NPI 1982604021
  Care Compare affiliation
• Medical University Hospital Authority

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Charleston, SC
  • NPI 1073605879
  Care Compare affiliation
• Medical University Hospital Authority

  dba MUSC Health- Rehabiliation - orangeburg - part of musc medical center

  • Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Orangeburg, SC
  • NPI 1154020147
  Care Compare affiliation
• Medical University Hospital Authority

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Charleston, SC
  • NPI 1659435840
  Care Compare affiliation
• Medical University Hospital Authority

  dba MUSC Health - Psychiatry - Orangeburg - part of MUSC Medical Center Ch

  • Psychiatric Hospital
  • Orangeburg, SC
  • NPI 1669171740
  Care Compare affiliation
• Medical University Hospital Authority

  dba MUSC Health - Orangeburg, part of the MUSC Medical Center - Charleston

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Orangeburg, SC
  • NPI 1710683354
  Care Compare affiliation
• Medical University Hospital Authority

  dba MUSC Health - Orangeburg, part of MUSC Medical Center - CHarleston

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Orangeburg, SC
  • NPI 1770280299
  Care Compare affiliation
• Waccamaw Community Hospital

  dba Tidelands Waccamaw Community Hospital

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Murrells Inlet, SC
  • NPI 1972503910
  Care Compare affiliation

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

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• Heather Denise Sharpe, PHARMD
• William A Shaver, M.D.
• Larry E. Sheehan, DMD
• Susan Sheppard-Carolina
• Angela Carter Sheridan, FNP
• Cynthia L Shields, CRNA
• David Monroe Shipp Jr., PHARM.D
• Victor Sidhom, M.D.
• Dana Leigh Skokowski
• Sleepmed, Inc

• Surgery Physician in Georgetown, SC
• Providers in Georgetown, SC by specialty
• Surgery Physician in South Carolina

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): identity, addresses, specialties, licenses, identifiers and endpoints. Last updated by the provider on Nov 13, 2025; self-reported and not verified by CMS. Specialty names from the NUCC taxonomy.
• Medicare enrollment (CMS PECOS): enrollments, PAC IDs and benefit reassignments; Order and Referring.
• 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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