Barbara Rickards DPM in Melrose, Massachusetts

Medical School: Kent State University College Of Podiatric Medicine
Graduation Year: 1982
The Primary Medical Specialty for Barbara Rickards DPM is listed as: Podiatry
Credentials: DPM
Additional Credentials:
Approximate Years of Experience: 42
PAC (PECOS ID)#: 9335158757
NPI #: 1144284563
NPI Created On: 04/13/2006
NPI Last Updated Listed as: 12/29/2022
Primary Taxonomy Code: 213E00000X
License Number:
1668
Listed Gender: Female

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Forms of insurance accepted by include, but are not limited to:

• Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Inc.
• Medicare

They are listed as accepting new patients.

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Services and Procedures include:

1. Drainage of abscess
2. Removal of single thickened skin growth
3. Removal of 2 to 4 thickened skin growths
4. Removal of more than 4 thickened skin growths
5. Removal of tissue from 1 to 5 finger or toe nails
6. Removal of tissue from 6 or more finger or toe nails
7. Separation of nail plate from nail bed
8. Removal of tissue from wounds per session
9. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 20 minutes
10. New patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 30 minutes
11. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 10 minutes
12. Established patient office or other outpatient visit, typically 15 minutes
13. Established patient assisted living visit, typically 15 minutes
14. Trimming of dystrophic nails, any number

They took part in Medicare's Electronic Health Record Incentive Program which was designed to help move people over to electronic records and improve the systems that were already in place.
They took part in the Medicare Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS).