Leah Bost Leska, FNP-BC

Primary specialty

Family Nurse PractitionerTaxonomy code 363LF0000X

License

5003242 Issued in NC

Practice address

3975 Robinson Rd
Newton, NC 28658-9715

Phone

(828) 466-0466

Fax

(828) 466-8862

NPI assigned

Aug 20, 2007

Sex

Female

Sole proprietor

Yes

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

Specialties & licenses 2

Addresses

Other names 1

• Leah B Vaughan Former name

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, 2006

Medicare assignment

May accept Medicare assignment

Telehealth

Offers telehealth services

Group practices

Carolina Caring Health Partners LLCGroup PAC ID 8820406143, 9 clinicians

Carolina Caring Serious Illness LLCGroup PAC ID 1052846516, 27 clinicians

Practice addresses (Care Compare)

Hospital & facility affiliations

• Frye Regional Medical Center Hospital, Hickory, NC, CCN 340116

Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)

Final score

87.23 of 100Reported as group

Quality

75.11

Promoting interoperability

84

Improvement activities

40

Cost

70.5

Medicare enrollment (NPD)

Enrolled

Credentials

Nurse Practitioner

State licenses

Practice roles

Locations

Interoperability endpoints

• Direct secure messaging: leahleska@pcchcv.allscriptsdirect.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.

• Carolina Caring Health Partners, LLC

  • Family Medicine Physician
  • Newton, NC
  • NPI 1093901696
  Medicare reassignment Care Compare group NPD
• Carolina Caring Serious Illness, LLC

  • Hospice and Palliative Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician
  • Newton, NC
  • NPI 1083449680
  Medicare reassignment Care Compare group NPD
• Caldwell Hospice and Palliative Care, Inc.

  • Community Based Hospice Care Agency
  • Lenoir, NC
  • NPI 1386931566
  NPD (past)

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

• DLP Frye Regional Medical Center LLC

  • General Acute Care Hospital
  • Hickory, NC
  • NPI 1801823349
  Care Compare affiliation

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

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• Family Nurse Practitioner in Newton, NC
• Providers in Newton, 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 Mar 26, 2026; 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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