Jack A. Sava, MD| Surgical Critical Care, Trauma Surgery | MedStar Health
About me
Jack Sava, MD, is director of the Gold Surgery team at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. Dr. Sava's team manages a broad spectrum of urgent general surgical conditions (including problems of the intestine, gallbladder, stomach, liver, and other abdominal organs) and staffs the MedStar Health trauma unit, a Level-1 trauma center.
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Appendicitis
- Compartment Syndrome
- Diverticulitis
- Gallbladder Disease
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Incarcerated Hernia
- Intestinal Obstruction
- Liver Trauma
- Lung Contusion
- Major Trauma
- Motor Vehicle Accident
- Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections
- Rib Fracture
- Trauma
- Ventral Hernia
Procedures I perform
- Hernia Repair
- Laparoscopic Treatment Of Small Bowel Obstruction
- Laparoscopic Ventral Hernia Repair
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
- UHC Community Plan of MD
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Medicare Fee for Service
- Kaiser Virginia Premier
- Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
- Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
- CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- CFBCBS EPO
- PPO and PPO Plus
- Choice Fund PPO
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
- Aetna HMO
- Network OA
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CIGNA EPO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- United Healthcare Choice
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Innovation Health: POS
- Open EPO Plus
- Open HMO
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Open POS II
- CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
- HealthyBlue PPO
- POS OA & OA Plus
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
- Opoen HMO Option
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- United Student Resources
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
- Tricare Prime
- FIRST HEALTH
- First Health PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
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Education
Board Certification: American Board of Surgery, Surgical Critical Care
Fellowship: LAC-USC Medical Center-GME (2001)
Residency: Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (1999)
Medical School: McGill University Faculty of Medicine (1994)