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Insurance
  • Aetna (374)
  • Cigna (365)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (346)
  • Oxford Health Plans (257)
  • UnitedHealthCare (254)
  • Humana (237)
  • Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield (225)
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (210)
  • Amerihealth (209)
  • MVP Health Care (208)
  • Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (190)
  • MagnaCare (189)
  • EmblemHealth (186)
  • Capital District Physician's Health Plan (CDPHP) (165)
  • Anthem (146)
  • Connecticare (145)
  • CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield (137)
  • First Health (131)
  • Healthfirst (128)
  • Curative (121)
  • Fidelis Care (115)
  • MultiPlan (113)
  • Oscar Health (111)
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (99)
  • QualCare (47)
  • Buckeye Community Health Plan (42)
  • Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (37)
  • Midwest Health Plan (23)
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care (22)
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Western New York (22)
  • Anthem Blue Cross (1)
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  • Anthem Blue Cross Life and Health Insurance Company (1)
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  • Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island (1)
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  • Delta Dental of Washington (1)
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  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield West Virginia (1)
  • Highmark Blue Shield of Northeastern New York (1)
  • Humana Benefit Plan of Illinois (1)
  • Humana Employers Health Plan of Georgia (1)
  • Humana Health Benefit Plan of Louisiana (1)
  • Humana Health Plan of Ohio (1)
  • Humana Health Plan of Texas (1)
  • Humana/CompBenefits (1)
  • HumanaOne (1)
  • Independence Blue Cross (1)
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Colorado (1)
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia, Inc. (1)
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States, Inc. (1)
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest (1)
  • Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. (1)
  • Kaiser Permanente (1)
  • Kaiser Permanente of the Mid-Atlantic States (1)
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  • Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Utah (1)
  • Regence Blue Shield of Washington (1)
  • Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon (1)
  • Regence BlueShield (1)
  • United Concordia (1)
  • United Concordia Dental (1)
  • UnitedHealth Group (1)
  • UnitedHealthcare Benefits of Texas (1)
  • UnitedHealthcare of California (1)
  • UnitedHealthcare Plan of the River Valley (1)
  • UnitedHealthOne (1)
  • Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield (1)
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Gender
  • Female (358)
  • Male (166)

Distance

Distance
  • 1 mile (31)
  • 5 miles (92)
  • 10 miles (524)
  • 25 miles (1152)
  • 50 miles (1478)
  • 100 miles (2120)
  • National (12610)

Age

Age
  • Under 40 (107)
  • 41-50 (121)
  • 51-60 (70)
  • 61-70 (54)
  • Over 70 (67)

Availability

Availability
  • Today (126)
  • Tomorrow (134)
  • Schedules online (6)
  • Accepts new patients (334)
  • Telehealth (308)

Language

Language
  • Arabic (10)
  • Bengali (2)
  • Bosnian (1)
  • Chinese (4)
  • Chinese, Cantonese (1)
  • Chinese, Mandarin (2)
  • Croatian (1)
  • Czech (2)
  • Farsi (1)
  • French (15)
  • Georgian (1)
  • German (3)
  • Greek (6)
  • Gujarati (5)
  • Haitian Creole (1)
  • Hebrew (7)
  • Hindi (17)
  • Indian (2)
  • Italian (2)
  • Japanese (1)
  • Korean (3)
  • Mandarin (1)
  • Polish (2)
  • Portuguese (3)
  • Punjabi (1)
  • Romanian (2)
  • Russian (10)
  • Serbian (1)
  • Spanish (66)
  • Tagalog (2)
  • Ukrainian (1)
  • Urdu (3)
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Patient Satisfaction
  • 5 Stars (95)
  • 4 Stars And Higher (228)
  • 3 Stars And Higher (323)
  • 2 Stars And Higher (359)
  • 1 Star And Higher (373)

Affiliated Facility

Affiliated Facility
  • Englewood Hospital (59)
  • Hackensack University Medical Center (53)
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (52)
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital (51)
  • NYU Langone Hospitals (39)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (38)
  • Weill Cornell Medical Center (36)
  • Montefiore Medical Center (33)
  • Valley Hospital (33)
  • Holy Name Medical Center (29)
  • Lenox Hill Hospital (25)
  • St. Joseph's University Medical Center (21)
  • Hospital for Special Surgery (21)
  • North Shore University Hospital (20)
  • Staten Island University Hospital (19)
  • Mount Sinai Morningside (17)
  • Stony Brook University Hospital (17)
  • Northern Westchester Hospital (16)
  • St John's Riverside Hospital (16)
  • Phelps Hospital (15)
  • Mount Sinai Beth Israel (15)
  • White Plains Hospital (13)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Jacobi (11)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital (10)
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (10)
  • Greenwich Hospital (9)
  • Morristown Medical Center (9)
  • Stony Brook Southampton Hospital (8)
  • Nyack Hospital (8)
  • Stamford Hospital (8)
  • Riverview Medical Center (8)
  • Westchester Medical Center (8)
  • Vassar Brothers Medical Center (8)
  • Jersey Shore University Medical Center (7)
  • Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (7)
  • Ocean University Medical Center (7)
  • BronxCare Hospital Center (7)
  • Glens Falls Hospital (7)
  • Children's National Hospital (6)
  • Boca Raton Regional Hospital (6)
  • Long Island Jewish Medical Center (6)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Queens (6)
  • Maimonides Medical Center (6)
  • Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center (6)
  • Bridgeport Hospital (5)
  • Hackensack Meridian Mountainside Medical Center (5)
  • Clara Maass Medical Center (5)
  • St. Anthony Community Hospital (5)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Lincoln (5)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital (5)
  • Montefiore Mount Vernon Hospital (5)
  • Chilton Medical Center (5)
  • Montefiore St. Luke's Cornwall (4)
  • Wayne Memorial Hospital (4)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (4)
  • Danbury Hospital (4)
  • Wilkes-Barre General Hospital (4)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan (4)
  • Garnet Health Medical Center (4)
  • Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca (4)
  • Sarasota Memorial Hospital (4)
  • Sharon Hospital (4)
  • NYU Langone Hospital-Brooklyn (4)
  • Good Samaritan Hospital (4)
  • St. Mary's General Hospital (4)
  • Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital (4)
  • Grace Cottage Family Health & Hospital (3)
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Lawrence (3)
  • Guthrie Corning Hospital (3)
  • Albany Medical Center Hospital (3)
  • Yale New Haven Hospital (3)
  • Berkshire Medical Center (3)
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center (3)
  • Hudson Regional Hospital (3)
  • UHS Binghamton General Hospital (3)
  • Columbia Memorial Hospital (3)
  • Saint Joseph's Medical Center (3)
  • Inova Fairfax Hospital (3)
  • Martha's Vineyard Hospital (3)
  • Mount Sinai South Nassau (3)
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital (3)
  • Southern Ocean Medical Center (3)
  • Healthalliance Hospital Marys Avenue (3)
  • JFK University Medical Center (3)
  • Garnet Health Medical Center-Catskills, Callicoon Campus (3)
  • St Peter's Hospital (3)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue (3)
  • Saratoga Hospital (3)
  • Fairview Hospital (3)
  • Community Medical Center (3)
  • Saint Peter's University Hospital (3)
  • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (3)
  • Hackensack Meridian Health Pascack Valley Medical (3)
  • Palisades Medical Center (3)
  • Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center (2)
  • Arnot Ogden Medical Center (2)
  • Los Alamitos Medical Center (2)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central Bronx (2)
  • Cobleskill Regional Hospital (2)
  • Northern Dutchess Hospital (2)
  • Strong Memorial Hospital (2)
  • Mount St. Mary's Hospital (2)
  • UPMC Chautauqua (2)
  • Jersey City Medical Center (2)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital (2)
  • United Memorial Medical Center (2)
  • Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital (2)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem (2)
  • Bertrand Chaffee Hospital (2)
  • Monmouth Medical Center (2)
  • Jones Memorial Hospital (2)
  • Samaritan Hospital (2)
  • Paoli Hospital (2)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital (2)
  • Brooks-TLC Hospital System (2)
  • University Hospital at Downstate (2)
  • Ellis Hospital (2)
  • Brookdale Hospital Medical Center (2)
  • Auburn Community Hospital (2)
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (2)
  • Newton Medical Center (2)
  • St. Luke's Hospital-Bethlehem Campus (2)
  • Mount Sinai Brooklyn (2)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County (2)
  • Bon Secours Community Hospital (2)
  • Kenmore Mercy Hospital (2)
  • NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island (2)
  • Mount Sinai West (2)
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  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (2)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health (2)
  • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset (2)
  • Atlantic General Hospital (2)
  • Stonesprings Hospital Center (2)
  • Olean General Hospital (2)
  • Overlook Medical Center (2)
  • Chester County Hospital (2)
  • Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center (2)
  • Monmouth Medical Center Southern Campus (2)
  • Trinitas Regional Medical Center (2)
  • Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (2)
  • UPMC Presbyterian (2)
  • Peconic Bay Medical Center (2)
  • UF Health Flagler Hospital (1)
  • Crozer-Chester Medical Center (1)
  • St. Mary Medical Center (1)
  • Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center (1)
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center (1)
  • Middlesex Hospital (1)
  • INTEGRIS Health Baptist Medical Center (1)
  • AdventHealth Parker (1)
  • Doctors Hospital (1)
  • Lawrence & Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest (1)
  • Riddle Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Northside Hospital Cherokee (1)
  • University of MD Medical Center Midtown Campus (1)
  • University Hospital S University N Y Health Science Center (1)
  • Providence Mission Hospital Mission Viejo (1)
  • Nassau University Medical Center (1)
  • Mercy Hospital Joplin (1)
  • Deaconess Hospital (1)
  • ECMC Health Campus (1)
  • Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital (1)
  • Reading Hospital (1)
  • Reston Hospital Center (1)
  • Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (1)
  • Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (1)
  • Nantucket Cottage Hospital (1)
  • UPMC Cole (1)
  • University of Vermont Medical Center (1)
  • Christian Hospital (1)
  • MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center (1)
  • Copley Hospital (1)
  • OhioHealth Grant Medical Center (1)
  • Morton Plant Hospital (1)
  • WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital (1)
  • The University of Chicago Medical Center (1)
  • Capital Health-East Trenton (1)
  • Eisenhower Medical Center (1)
  • Foothills Hospital (1)
  • Mather Hospital (1)
  • Mary Washington Hospital (1)
  • Winchester Hospital (1)
  • St. Mary Medical Center (1)
  • St. Luke's Hospital-Warren Campus (1)
  • Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (1)
  • Jupiter Medical Center (1)
  • Catholic Health-St. Joseph Campus (1)
  • Good Samaritan Medical Center (1)
  • Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington (1)
  • INTEGRIS Southwest Medical Center (1)
  • Bayshore Medical Center (1)
  • Hunterdon Medical Center (1)
  • Baystate Medical Center (1)
  • Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical Center (1)
  • Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital at Rahway (1)
  • Lancaster General Hospital (1)
  • Bergen New Bridge Medical Center (1)
  • Beaufort County Memorial Hospital (1)
  • MT. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (1)
  • Guthrie Cortland Medical Center (1)
  • Incline Village Community Hospital (1)
  • Lee Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Bsa Hospital (1)
  • Sisters of Charity Hospital (1)
  • Naples Community Hospital (1)
  • South County Hospital (1)
  • Physicians Regional Medical Center Pine Ridge (1)
  • Norwalk Hospital (1)
  • Lehigh Valley Hospital Hazleton (1)
  • Shore Medical Center (1)
  • UPMC Western Maryland (1)
  • Mercy Hospital of Buffalo (1)
  • Memorial Hospital Belleville (1)
  • University Hospital (1)
  • Butler Memorial Hospital (1)
  • South Shore University Hospital (1)
  • Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center (1)
  • Ingalls Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Northbay Medical Center (1)
  • Northern Light Mercy Hospital (1)
  • Nathan Littauer Hospital (1)
  • St. Mary's Hospital Amsterdam (1)
  • Raritan Bay Medical Center (1)
  • Centrastate Medical Center (1)
  • Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite (1)
  • Beebe Medical Center (1)
  • Newark Beth Israel Medical Center (1)
  • Northwest Community Hospital (1)
  • New Milford Hospital (1)
  • FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital (1)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst (1)
  • Mercy Hospital Carthage (1)
  • Frederick Health Hospital (1)
  • Adventist Health Portland (1)
  • Adirondack Medical Center Saranac Lake (1)
  • Barnes Jewish Hospital (1)
  • MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center (1)
  • Grand Strand Medical Center (1)
  • Park City Hospital (1)
  • Mercy Medical Center (1)
  • Inova Mount Vernon Hospital (1)
  • Kingman Regional Medical Center (1)
  • Alton Memorial Hospital (1)
  • West Kendall Baptist Hospital (1)
  • Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex (1)
  • Endless Mountains Health Systems (1)
  • Jefferson Abington Hospital (1)
  • United Hospital Center (1)
  • Munson Medical Center (1)
  • NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens (1)
  • Noyes Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (1)
  • Mount Nittany Medical Center (1)
  • WellSpan York Hospital (1)
  • MUSC Medical Center (1)
  • Milton S Hershey Medical Center (1)
  • Canton-Potsdam Hospital (1)
  • Piedmont Fayette Hospital (1)
  • UHS Delaware Valley Hospital (1)
  • Backus Hospital (1)
  • HCA Florida Oak Hill Hospital (1)
  • TidalHealth Peninsula Regional (1)
  • MountainView Hospital (1)
  • O'Connor Hospital (1)
  • MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center (1)
  • Glen Cove Hospital (1)
  • Baptist Health Paducah (1)
  • University of Mississippi Medical Center (1)
  • Jefferson Stratford Hospital (1)
  • UConn John Dempsey Hospital (1)
  • Cooley Dickinson Hospital (1)
  • Long Island Community Hospital (1)
  • Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center (1)
  • Delray Medical Center (1)
  • Hoag Hospital Newport Beach (1)
  • Stanislaus Surgical Hospital (1)
  • Baptist Hospital of Miami (1)
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore (1)
  • Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital (1)
  • Margaretville Memorial Hospital (1)
  • NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital (1)
  • Putnam Hospital Center (1)
  • Intermountain Medical Center (1)
  • Aspen Valley Hospital (1)
  • Oneida Health (1)
  • St. Francis Hospital & Heart Center (1)
  • Lankenau Medical Center (1)
  • Buffalo General Medical Center (1)
  • Beverly Hospital (1)
  • Boston Children's Hospital (1)
  • Loyola University Medical Center (1)
  • Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital (1)
  • University of MD Capital Region Medical Center (1)
  • St James Hospital (1)
  • Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital (1)
  • Bassett Medical Center (1)
  • UVA Health Culpeper Medical Center (1)
  • Mariners Hospital (1)
  • CareWell Health Medical Center (1)
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