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  • Aetna (874)
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  • Female (401)
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  • National (39885)

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Age
  • Under 40 (166)
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Availability

Availability
  • Today (303)
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  • Schedules online (70)
  • Accepts new patients (813)
  • Telehealth (390)

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Language
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  • Spanish (213)
  • Tagalog (4)
  • Taiwanese (1)
  • Tamil (6)
  • Telugu (4)
  • Turkish (3)
  • Ukrainian (3)
  • Urdu (5)
  • Yiddish (4)
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Patient Satisfaction
  • 5 Stars (307)
  • 4 Stars And Higher (674)
  • 3 Stars And Higher (819)
  • 2 Stars And Higher (851)
  • 1 Star And Higher (875)

Clinical Focus

Clinical Focus
  • Abdominal Surgery (17)

Affiliated Facility

Affiliated Facility
  • Mount Sinai Hospital (115)
  • NYU Langone Hospitals (85)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center (76)
  • Weill Cornell Medical Center (71)
  • Mount Sinai Beth Israel (62)
  • Lenox Hill Hospital (61)
  • Mount Sinai Morningside (52)
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital (40)
  • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (40)
  • Staten Island University Hospital (39)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Queens (38)
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Lawrence (36)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital (36)
  • North Shore University Hospital (30)
  • Long Island Jewish Medical Center (29)
  • NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital (28)
  • Mount Sinai Queens (27)
  • Hackensack University Medical Center (26)
  • Mount Sinai West (26)
  • Brookdale Hospital Medical Center (25)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital (23)
  • Mount Sinai Brooklyn (23)
  • Maimonides Medical Center (23)
  • Bellevue Hospital Center (20)
  • The Brooklyn Hospital Center (18)
  • University Hospital at Downstate (17)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital (15)
  • Elmhurst Hospital Center (15)
  • University Hospital (14)
  • Englewood Hospital (14)
  • Maimonides Midwood Community Hospital (13)
  • Wyckoff Heights Medical Center (12)
  • Richmond University Medical Center (11)
  • Flushing Hospital Medical Center (11)
  • Metropolitan Hospital Center (11)
  • Jamaica Hospital Medical Center (10)
  • Holy Name Medical Center (9)
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  • Stony Brook University Hospital (9)
  • Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (8)
  • Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center (8)
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  • Palisades Medical Center (8)
  • Montefiore Medical Center (7)
  • Hudson Regional Hospital (7)
  • Overlook Medical Center (7)
  • Vassar Brothers Medical Center (7)
  • Saint Michael's Medical Center (6)
  • Newyork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital (6)
  • Mount Sinai South Nassau (6)
  • White Plains Hospital (6)
  • Queens Hospital Center (6)
  • Morristown Medical Center (6)
  • Phelps Hospital (5)
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  • St. Joseph's University Medical Center (3)
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  • Newyork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital (3)
  • Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center (3)
  • Boca Raton Regional Hospital (3)
  • Centrastate Medical Center (3)
  • Hospital for Special Surgery (3)
  • Mercy Medical Center (3)
  • NYU Langone Hospital—long Island (3)
  • Hackettstown Medical Center (3)
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Affirming Care
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