Melissa Ruark, FNP

Primary specialty

Family Nurse PractitionerTaxonomy code 363LF0000X

License

RN142064 Issued in GA

Practice address

743 Spring St NE
Gainesville, GA 30501-3715

Phone

(770) 534-2020

Fax

(770) 534-8025

NPI assigned

Jun 29, 2016

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 1

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in GA

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, 2016

Medicare assignment

Accepts the Medicare-approved amount as payment in full

Telehealth

Offers telehealth services

Group practices

Georgia Heart Institute LLCGroup PAC ID 4183848062, 127 clinicians

Practice addresses (Care Compare)

Hospital & facility affiliations

• Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc Hospital, Gainesville, GA, CCN 110029
• NGMC Barrow, LLC Hospital, Winder, GA, CCN 110045

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Final score

88.46 of 100Reported as group

Quality

85.33

Promoting interoperability

100

Improvement activities

40

Cost

76.19

Medicare enrollment (NPD)

Enrolled

Credentials

Nurse Practitioner

State licenses

Practice roles

Locations

Interoperability endpoints

• Direct secure messaging: mruark102857@nghs.gadirect.net

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

• Georgia Heart Institute LLC

  • Cardiovascular Disease Physician
  • Gainesville, GA
  • NPI 1477976520
  Medicare reassignment Care Compare group NPD
• Northeast Georgia Heart Center

  • Cardiovascular Disease Physician
  • Gainesville, GA
  • NPI 1508812421
  NPD
• Kimberly Walpert, M.D., LLC

  • Neurological Surgery Physician
  • Athens, GA
  • NPI 1326419649
  NPD (past)
• Piedmont Athens Hospitalist Physicians LLC

  • Internal Medicine Physician
  • Atlanta, GA
  • NPI 1578079000
  NPD (past)
• Piedmont Cardiology of Atlanta, LLC

  • Cardiovascular Disease Physician
  • Atlanta, GA
  • NPI 1275729691
  NPD (past)
• Indiana University Health Southern Indiana Physicians, LLC

  • Multi-Specialty Clinic/Center
  • Bloomington, IN
  • NPI 1013953983

  Nurse Practitioner

  NPD (past)

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

• NGMC Barrow LLC

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Winder, GA
  • NPI 1881144889
  Care Compare affiliation
• Northeast Georgia Medical Center, Inc.

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Gainesville, GA
  • NPI 1427055821
  Care Compare affiliation

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

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            "city": "ATLANTA",
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• Family Nurse Practitioner in Gainesville, GA
• Providers in Gainesville, GA by specialty
• Family Nurse Practitioner in Georgia

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): identity, addresses, specialties, licenses, identifiers and endpoints. Last updated by the provider on Dec 7, 2020; 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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