Emma Best Hughes, ANP

Primary specialty

Acute Care Nurse PractitionerTaxonomy code 363LA2100X

License

20176 Issued in TN

Practice address

162 BMH Physicians Office BLDG
Maryville, TN 37804-5902

Phone

(865) 238-6161

Fax

(865) 238-6170

NPI assigned

Aug 12, 2015

Last updated

Oct 28, 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 3

Addresses

Other identifiers 1

Other names 1

• Emma Elaine Best Other name

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in TN

Eligible to order & refer

• Part B services: Yes
• Medical equipment: Yes
• Home health: Yes
• Power mobility devices: Yes
• Hospice: No

Green means eligible to order or refer.

Enrollment records 1

Specialty

Nurse Practitioner

Education

Other, 2015

Medicare assignment

Accepts the Medicare-approved amount as payment in full

Group practices

Blount Memorial Physician Group IncGroup PAC ID 6406844174, 252 clinicians

Practice addresses (Care Compare)

Hospital & facility affiliations

• Blount Memorial Hospital Hospital, Maryville, TN, CCN 440011

Medicare enrollment (NPD)

Enrolled

Credentials

Nurse Practitioner

State licenses

Practice roles

Locations

Interoperability endpoints

• Direct secure messaging: ehughes864511@direct.ghs.myhfn.org
• Direct secure messaging: emma.besthughes.p1@direct.bmpg.nextgenshare.com

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.

• Blount Memorial Physician Group, Inc

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Alcoa, TN
  • NPI 1699710194
  Medicare reassignment Care Compare group
• Saint Thomas Medical Partners

  dba Ascension Medical Group Saint Thomas

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Nashville, TN
  • NPI 1437194669
  Medicare reassignment NPD

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

• Prisma Health - Blount Memorial Hospital Inc.

  dba Blount Memorial Hospital

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Maryville, TN
  • NPI 1619939071
  Care Compare affiliation

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

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            "address_1": "300 E MCBEE AVE FL 4",
            "city": "GREENVILLE",
            "state": "SC",
            "postal_code": "296012842"
        },
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            "city": "MARYVILLE",
            "state": "TN",
            "postal_code": "378045902",
            "telephone_number": "865-238-6161",
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        "first_name": "EMMA",
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        "enumeration_date": "2015-08-12",
        "last_updated": "2025-10-28",
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        }
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    "endpoints": [],
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            "first_name": "EMMA",
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• Eric Dale Hudgins, PT
• Janet Hudson, CRNA
• Audrey Huffman, HIS
• Sabrina R Huffstetler, APN, NP-C
• Daniel Paul Huggins, ATC, LAT, PTA, CEAS
• Hannah Garlyn Hughes, OD
• Andrea Hughs
• Ana Hume, LPC
• Lindsay Marie Humphries, PA
• Melinda Sue Huskey, PT

• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Maryville, TN
• Providers in Maryville, TN by specialty
• Acute Care Nurse Practitioner in Tennessee

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): identity, addresses, specialties, licenses, identifiers and endpoints. Last updated by the provider on Oct 28, 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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