Essence Premier Health, LLC

Primary specialty

Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) PhysicianTaxonomy code 207LP2900X

License

0101230590 Issued in VA

Legal business name

ESSENCE PREMIER HEALTH, LLC

Doing business as

Blue Ridge Chronic Pain Center

Practice address

16830 Forest Rd
Forest, VA 24551-4059

Phone

(434) 515-2775

NPI assigned

Mar 8, 2017

Last updated

Aug 7, 2025By the provider in NPPES

Organization subpart

No

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

Authorized official

Name

Dr. Rick Don Lee, M.D.NPI 1578529269

Title

Owner

Phone

(434) 942-8417

Specialties & licenses 1

Addresses

Other names 1

• Blue Ridge Chronic Pain Center Doing business as

Medicare fee-for-service enrollment

Enrolled in VA2 enrollments

Enrollment records 2

These CMS records do not include an NPI. They are shown because their name and street address match this provider’s.

CLIA laboratory certificates

Locations

Interoperability endpoints

• FHIR API: https://fhir4.healow.com/fhir/r4/BGGGDD

Practitioners 2

Individual providers connected to this organization through Medicare benefit reassignment, Care Compare group membership or National Provider Directory roles, and the practitioner matching its NPPES authorized official.

• Rick Don Lee, MD

  • Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician
  • Forest, VA
  • NPI 1578529269
  Medicare reassignment NPD Authorized official
• Dabney White Dunning, FNP

  • Family Nurse Practitioner
  • Forest, VA
  • NPI 1659754935
  NPD (past)

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

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    "enumeration_type": "NPI-2",
    "last_updated_epoch": "1754524800000",
    "number": "1689114761",
    "addresses": [
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            "country_code": "US",
            "country_name": "United States",
            "address_purpose": "MAILING",
            "address_type": "DOM",
            "address_1": "16830 FOREST RD",
            "city": "FOREST",
            "state": "VA",
            "postal_code": "245514059",
            "telephone_number": "434-515-2775",
            "fax_number": "844-364-8201"
        },
        {
            "country_code": "US",
            "country_name": "United States",
            "address_purpose": "LOCATION",
            "address_type": "DOM",
            "address_1": "16830 FOREST RD",
            "city": "FOREST",
            "state": "VA",
            "postal_code": "245514059",
            "telephone_number": "434-515-2775"
        }
    ],
    "practiceLocations": [],
    "basic": {
        "organization_name": "ESSENCE PREMIER HEALTH, LLC",
        "organizational_subpart": "NO",
        "enumeration_date": "2017-03-08",
        "last_updated": "2025-08-07",
        "certification_date": "2025-08-07",
        "status": "A",
        "authorized_official_last_name": "LEE",
        "authorized_official_first_name": "RICK",
        "authorized_official_middle_name": "DON",
        "authorized_official_title_or_position": "OWNER",
        "authorized_official_telephone_number": "434-942-8417",
        "authorized_official_name_prefix": "Dr.",
        "authorized_official_credential": "M.D."
    },
    "taxonomies": [
        {
            "code": "207LP2900X",
            "taxonomy_group": "",
            "desc": "Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine",
            "state": "VA",
            "license": "0101230590",
            "primary": true
        }
    ],
    "identifiers": [],
    "endpoints": [],
    "other_names": [
        {
            "organization_name": "Blue Ridge Chronic Pain Center",
            "code": "3",
            "type": "Doing Business As"
        }
    ]
}

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• Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician in Forest, VA
• Providers in Forest, VA by specialty
• Pain Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician in Virginia

• NPPES NPI Registry (CMS): identity, addresses, specialties, licenses, identifiers and endpoints. Last updated by the provider on Aug 7, 2025; self-reported and not verified by CMS. Specialty names from the NUCC taxonomy.
• Medicare enrollment (CMS PECOS): enrollments, PAC IDs and benefit reassignments.
• 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.

Verify at the official NPI Registry.