Wake Forest University Health Sciences
About this NPIWhat this record shows.
NPI 1588840946 is registered to Wake Forest University Health Sciences, a healthcare organisation classified as "Nephrology Physician" and located at Medical Center Blvd in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The organisation's authorised official is William Applegate. The organisation has been enumerated in the NPI registry since 2008.
Beyond the registryWhat this record adds.
This record carries 1 secondary identifier beyond the base NPI: Medicaid and other payer cross-references used by billers and credentialers, which the standard CMS NPPES lookup does not surface. Within the directory it is one of 473 Nephrology Physician providers on file in North Carolina.
Source: CMS NPPES and PECOS public files. snapshot, refreshed monthly.
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Secondary identifiers
Additional identifiers this provider has registered with NPPES. Used by medical billers, credentialers, and insurance verifiers to cross-reference claims and enrollments.
Medicaid
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Source: NPPES public registry.
Insurance & acceptsHow to confirm coverage.
The National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) registry does not include commercial insurance network data, so we cannot show which plans Wake Forest University Health Sciences accepts. To confirm in-network status with your specific health plan, contact Wake Forest University Health Sciences directly at (336) 716-2255.
Frequently asked
Yes. NPI 1588840946 is registered as Active in the CMS NPPES public registry and passes the Luhn check-digit validation that all 10-digit NPIs use.
Nephrology Physician is a recognised medical specialty under the National Uniform Claim Committee (NUCC) taxonomy.
The CMS NPPES Public Registry at npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov is the authoritative source. FindMyNPI mirrors this dataset and refreshes monthly. For real-time verification, you can also call the provider's office at (336) 716-2255.
An individual healthcare provider has a single Type-1 NPI for life. Organisations can hold separate Type-2 NPIs per location, specialty, or sub-entity. Wake Forest University Health Sciences is a Type-2 organisational NPI.
As of the latest monthly CMS NPPES snapshot, 473 Nephrology Physician providers are registered in North Carolina, and Wake Forest University Health Sciences is one of them. The figure refreshes each month from the federal source.