Provider records sourced from NPPES (CMS National Plan & Provider Enumeration System). Data current as of August 10, 2026.

Sarah E Rutstein, MD, PHD

Individual provider Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · NPI 1821523630

Sarah E Rutstein, MD, PHD is registered under Infectious Disease in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Graduated from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine in 2017, 9 years ago. Practices with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a 2,079-clinician group, accepts Medicare assignment and offers telehealth. Licensed in North Carolina.

Years since qualifying
9
Trained at
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Licensed in
NC
In the registry since
2017
Specialties on file
2
What do these letters mean?
MD — Doctor of Medicine
A physician who completed allopathic medical school.
PHD — Doctor of Philosophy
A research doctorate. In healthcare it usually sits alongside a clinical licence.

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Practice location Address checks out

Student / training record This NPI belongs to someone enrolled in a health care training programme. It carries no licence and no practice of its own, so no address or phone number is published for it.

Chapel Hill, NC

Specialties & licences

Infectious Disease Physician (primary) Taxonomy 207RI0200X · Licence 2019-00770 (NC)
Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program Taxonomy 390200000X · Licence 226981 (NC)

Record details

NPI number1821523630
Entity typeIndividual (Type 1)
GenderFemale
Credentials MD , PHD
Sole proprietorYes
NPI enumeratedApril 30, 2017
Last updated in NPPESOctober 21, 2022
Certification dateApril 8, 2021

Medicare enrollment

From the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file — this clinician is enrolled in Medicare.

Medicare specialtyINFECTIOUS DISEASE
Medical schoolUNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Graduated 2017 (9 years in practice)
Group practice University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill — 2079 clinicians
Accepts Medicare assignment Yes — accepts the Medicare-approved amount
TelehealthOffers telehealth services

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Medicare patients54
Services billed 199 a service is one billed item, such as a visit, a test or a procedure
Average patient age71

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Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Travel and Lodging $576 3 payments · travel or lodging paid or reimbursed, such as to attend a conference
Food and Beverage $306 5 payments · a meal or drink at a meeting or visit, not a fee

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Practises at

Facilities the CMS Facility Affiliation file lists for this clinician.

Colleagues at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 2079 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

Other providers in Chapel Hill