William Fisher, MD
Emergency Medicine Physician · Hickory, NC
William Fisher, MD is an emergency medicine physician with a practice address in Hickory, North Carolina, and NPI 1952380263, issued on Jan 13, 2006. Check the license (North Carolina 9400792, as entered in NPPES) on the North Carolina Medical Board; the Medicare figures below come from public CMS files.
- Name
- William Fisher
- Credential
- MD
- Primary taxonomy
- Emergency Medicine Physician 207P00000X
- License number
- 9400792 NC
Self-reported in NPPES; status is on the state search - Practice location
- 810 Fairgrove Church RD, Hickory, NC 28602
- Phone
- (828) 326-3060
- Enumerated
- Jan 13, 2006
- Record last updated
- Mar 18, 2013 (not updated in 13 years: call before relying on the address or phone)
- Medicaid ID
- 8932233 NC
- Medicare enrollment
- Enrolled (PECOS I20040917000101); accepts Medicare assignment
- Medical or professional school
- State University Of Ny Upstate Medical University, 1991
- Entity
- Type 1 · individual
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Also registered at 810 Fairgrove Church RD
A shared address usually means a shared clinic or building; it does not show who employs whom.
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Verify William Fisher in five checks
- 1IdentityNPI record in CMS NPPESNPI lookupConfirmed in NPPES
- 2LicenseActive license and public ordersNorth Carolina Medical Board
Search for license 9400792Check the board - 3Other statesLicenses and actions elsewhereDocInfo (FSMB)Not checked
- 4ExclusionsMedicare and Medicaid bansHHS-OIG exclusion listNot checked
- 5CertificationBoard certificationABMS AOA NCCPA AANPNot checked
41% more Medicare Part D claims than the average emergency medicine physician in 2024
319 Medicare Part D claims for 208 beneficiaries, against an average of 226 among the 54,106 providers of this specialty who prescribed in Part D. 57 claims were for opioids.
Most prescribed
- Cefdinir36 claims
- Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen28 claims
- Prednisone28 claims
- Oxycodone-Acetaminophen22 claims
- Ondansetron Odt21 claims
- Meclizine Hcl16 claims
Source: CMS Medicare Part D Prescribers by Provider and Drug, 2024 (data.cms.gov). Part D covers prescriptions for Medicare patients only; drugs with fewer than 11 claims are not published.
No measured MIPS final score for 2023
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 without scoring Quality, Cost, Promoting Interoperability or Improvement Activities. It is an administrative threshold, so PlainDoctor does not compare it with measured clinicians.
Source: CMS Quality Payment Program, MIPS performance year 2023, group reporting; category weights for 2023 (qpp.cms.gov).
Industry payments in 2024: $16.21
1 payment: food and beverage; the largest payer was Lilly USA, LLC. The 12,335 providers of this specialty with any payment received $953.79 on average. Payments are reported by manufacturers, not by the provider, and are not a sign of wrongdoing.
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov); average among providers of this specialty with at least one payment.
Bills Medicare through one group practice
- Wake Forest Emergency ProvidersBoone, NC
Source: CMS Doctors and Clinicians National Downloadable File (the group practices a clinician bills Medicare through) (data.cms.gov).
William Fisher among 2,094 emergency medicine physician records in North Carolina
William Fisher, MD is one of 2,094 emergency medicine physician records with a practice address in North Carolina. 81% of them appear in a Medicare file (Part D prescribing, MIPS, Open Payments or Medicare group billing); this one does. Its NPI, issued in 2006, is newer than 7% of them.
- NPI issued2006 · 7% of these records are older, 61% newer
- In a Medicare fileYes · 81% of these records are
- In the CMS Doctors and Clinicians fileYes · 63% of these records are
- Graduated1991 · median 2012 among the 1,317 with a school on file
- Record last updated2013 · 55% of these records were not updated in five years or more
Source: CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026, every record with primary taxonomy 207P00000X and a North Carolina practice address; Medicare files: CMS Part D Prescribers 2024, MIPS 2023, Open Payments 2024, Doctors and Clinicians (data.cms.gov).
25 emergency medicine physician records list a practice address in Hickory
They are 25 of the 2,124 NPPES records with a practice address in Hickory, and 2,094 emergency medicine physician records in North Carolina.
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Common questions
What is William Fisher, MD's NPI number?
William Fisher, MD's National Provider Identifier (NPI) is 1952380263, issued on Jan 13, 2006. An NPI identifies a provider in billing; it is not a license.
Where is William Fisher, MD located?
The NPPES record lists a practice address at 810 Fairgrove Church RD, Hickory, NC, 28602. Phone: (828) 326-3060. Providers update this record themselves, so call before visiting.
How can I verify William Fisher, MD's license?
NPPES lists North Carolina license number 9400792, as entered by the provider. Search the North Carolina Medical Board at https://portal.ncmedboard.org/verification/search.aspx. The NPPES record confirms identity only; the state search shows license status, expiration and public orders.
How much does William Fisher, MD prescribe under Medicare Part D?
In 2024, William Fisher, MD had 319 Medicare Part D claims for 208 beneficiaries; the average among emergency medicine physician prescribers was 226. Part D covers Medicare prescriptions only.
What is William Fisher, MD's MIPS final score?
CMS assigned the neutral MIPS final score of 75 for 2023 without scoring any category, so it is not a measured result.
Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES), file of Aug 9, 2026 (NPPES files on CMS.gov); NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy. Medicare files from data.cms.gov. An NPI identifies who bills; it is not a license.
Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of Aug 9, 2026.