Heather Elizabeth Portaro, NP-C

Primary specialty

Family Nurse PractitionerTaxonomy code 363LF0000X

License

5010632 Issued in NC

Practice address

870 State Farm Rd Ste 101
Boone, NC 28607-4862

Phone

(828) 264-4545

NPI assigned

Mar 9, 2018

Last updated

Jul 18, 2024By 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

Other identifiers 1

Electronic endpoints 1

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in NC

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, 2018

Medicare assignment

Accepts the Medicare-approved amount as payment in full

Group practices

Blue Ridge Ear Nose and Throat IncGroup PAC ID 6901719434, 9 clinicians

Practice addresses (Care Compare)

Hospital & facility affiliations

• Watauga Medical Center Hospital, Boone, NC, CCN 340051
• Charles a Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital Hospital, Linville, NC, CCN 341323

Medicare enrollment (NPD)

Enrolled

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.

• Blue Ridge Ear, Nose and Throat, Inc.

  • Otolaryngology Physician
  • Boone, NC
  • NPI 1285846493
  Medicare reassignment Care Compare group NPD
• Appalachian Regional Medical Associates, Inc.

  dba Appalachian Gastroenterology

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Boone, NC
  • NPI 1669533923
  Medicare reassignment NPD
• DLP Frye Medical Group LLC

  dba FryeCare Lincolnton Medical Group

  • Rural Health Clinic/Center
  • Lincolnton, NC
  • NPI 1154005965
  Medicare reassignment NPD
• Timothy Turbett MD PC

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Boone, NC
  • NPI 1750042958

  Nurse Practitioner

  Medicare reassignment NPD
• DLP Frye Medical Group LLC

  dba FryeCare Physicians Hospitalist Program

  • Hospitalist Physician
  • Hickory, NC
  • NPI 1568900660
  NPD

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

• Charles a Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital Inc

  dba Cannon Inpatient Behavioral Health

  • Psychiatric Hospital Unit
  • Linville, NC
  • NPI 1407006968
  Care Compare affiliation
• Charles a Cannon Jr Memorial Hospital Inc.

  dba Appalachian Regional Healthcare System

  • Critical Access Hospital
  • Linville, NC
  • NPI 1225088255
  Care Compare affiliation
• Watauga Medical Center Inc

  dba Watauga Medical Center

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Boone, NC
  • NPI 1205859766
  Care Compare affiliation

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

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• Family Nurse Practitioner in Boone, NC
• Providers in Boone, NC by specialty
• Family Nurse Practitioner in North Carolina

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): identity, addresses, specialties, licenses, identifiers and endpoints. Last updated by the provider on Jul 18, 2024; 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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