Abigail Schmucker, MD
Hospital Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Hospital Medicine HUP
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (Hospital Medicine)
My education and training
- Thomas Jefferson University Sidney Kimmel Medical CollegeMedical School
- Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaResidency
- Hospital of the University of PennsylvaniaFellowship
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Americhealth Caritas of PA VIP - LGH Only
- Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only)
- Amerihealth Caritas of PA - LGH Only
- Centivo EPO
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
- Penn Medicine Rittenhouse Long-Term Acute Care Hospital
- Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Schmucker is a Penn Medicine provider.
Qualifications and experience
- Internal Medicine - Geriatric Medicine, 2025
- Internal Medicine, 2024
- American College of Physicians, National
- American Geriatrics Society, National
- American Medical Association, National
- Pennsylvania Medical Society, Local
- Society for Hospital Medicine, National
- Society of General Internal Medicine, International
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Schmucker, A. M., Miller, R. K., Michener, A. R., Zukoski, S., Williams, P. N., & Watto, M. F. #503 Falls with Dr. Alyson Michener and Suzanne Zukoski , The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast: 2025
Witt, L. J., Miller, R. K., Szymanski, E., Williams, P. N., & Watto, M. F. #467 Unintentional weight loss , The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast: 2025
Schmucker, A. M., Reyes-Farias, D., Nicosia, F. M., Xu E., Potter, M. B., Karliner, L.S., Brown, R.T. Caring for Patients with Functional Impairment in Middle Age: Perspectives from Primary Care Providers and Geriatricians. , Journal General Internal Medicine, 39(12): 2024,2292-2299
Hill J., Schmucker A., Siman N., Goldfeld K., Cuthel A., Chodosh J., Bouillon-Minois J., & Grudzen C. Emergency and post-emergency care of older adults with Alzheimer’s disease/Alzheimer’s disease related dementias , [Poster presentation]. Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, United States.: 2022
Schmucker, A. M., Leiby, B. E., & Wilde, L. Validation of AML-score in older adults receiving CPX-351 intensive induction chemotherapy for treatment of secondary acute myeloid leukemia. , ClinicalLymphoma, Myeloma & Leukemia, 22(3): 2022,e206-e212
Hill, J. D., Schmucker, A. M., Siman, N, Goldfeld, K. S., Cuthel, A. M., Chodosh, J, Bouillon-Minois, J. B., & Grudzen, C. R. Emergency and post-emergency care of older adults with Alzheimer's disease/Alzheimer's disease related dementias. , Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 70(9): 2022,2582-2591
Hill, J. D., Schmucker, A. M., Siman, N., Goldfeld, K., Cuthel, A. M., Adeyemi, O. J., Edwards, E., Bouillon-Minois, J. B., & Grudzen, C. R. Household income and older adult population predict number of integrative medicine providers around US hospitals: An environmental scan study. , Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 11: 2022
Kirksey, M., Sasaki, M., Grace, D., McLawhorn, A. S., Kunze, K., Do, H., Schmucker, A., Lyman, S., Magid, S., DeNegre, S., & Hupert, N. A novel network-based metric of surgical team consistency opens opportunities to improve hospital performance and care value. , NEJM Catalyst, 3(12): 2022
Schmucker, A. M. On auscultating peaches. , Academic Medicine, 96(7): 2021,1056
Schmucker, A. M., Flannery, M., Cho, J., Goldfeld, K., Grudzen, C., & The EMPallA Investigators. Data from Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA): A randomized controlled trial comparing the effectiveness of specialty outpatient versus telephonic palliative care of older adults with advanced illness in the emergency department. , BMC Emergency Medicine, 21(1): 2021,83