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There are 1,136 Primary Care Doctors in Columbia, MD and 35% of those with reviews are rated 4-star or higher. Popular hospitals in the area include Howard County General Hospital, Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital and UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center.
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Insurance
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield (705)
  • CareFirst Blue Cross Blue Shield (644)
  • First Health (581)
  • Aetna (572)
  • UnitedHealthCare (509)
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield (501)
  • MVP Health Care (454)
  • Cigna (348)
  • Humana (323)
  • Anthem (169)
  • Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield (133)
  • MultiPlan (90)
  • Amerihealth (82)
  • MAPFRE Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico (74)
  • Coventry Health Care (45)
  • Capital Blue Cross (44)
  • Midwest Health Plan (31)
  • Buckeye Community Health Plan (30)
  • Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma (28)
  • Optima Health (27)
  • Amerigroup (Wellpoint) (25)
  • Commercial Insurance Company (25)
  • Health Net (24)
  • Maryland Physicians Care (16)
  • Assurant Health (14)
  • Kaiser Permanente (14)
  • CoreSource (13)
  • Golden Rule (12)
  • Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP) (12)
  • EmblemHealth (11)
  • Anthem Blue Cross (1)
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  • Humana Veterans (1)
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  • 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)
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  • Medicaid of Maryland (1)
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  • Regence BlueCross BlueShield of Oregon (1)
  • Trigon Blue Cross Blue Shield (1)
  • United Concordia (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

Gender
  • Female (666)
  • Male (470)

Distance

Distance
  • 1 mile (58)
  • 5 miles (498)
  • 10 miles (1136)
  • 25 miles (11188)
  • 50 miles (16015)
  • 100 miles (25353)
  • National (436659)

Specialty

Specialty
  • Internal Medicine (510)
  • Family Medicine (319)
  • Pediatrics (242)
  • Geriatric Medicine (77)
  • General Medical Practice (7)
  • Pediatric Medicine (6)
  • Adult Medicine (6)
  • Family Medicine (Nurse Practitioner) (6)
  • Women's Health Medicine (3)
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Age

Age
  • Under 40 (140)
  • 41-50 (245)
  • 51-60 (270)
  • 61-70 (228)
  • Over 70 (145)

Availability

Availability
  • Today (63)
  • Tomorrow (65)
  • Schedules online (12)
  • Accepts new patients (437)
  • Telehealth (501)

Language

Language
  • Afrikaans (1)
  • Albanian (1)
  • American Sign Language (2)
  • Amharic (5)
  • Arabic (9)
  • Armenian (1)
  • Bengali (3)
  • Bulgarian (2)
  • Burmese (1)
  • Chinese (10)
  • Chinese, Mandarin (1)
  • Chinese, Min Nan (2)
  • Croatian (1)
  • Farsi (7)
  • Filipino (1)
  • French (30)
  • French Creole (2)
  • German (2)
  • Gujarati (12)
  • Hausa (1)
  • Hebrew (2)
  • Hindi (59)
  • Hungarian (1)
  • Igbo (2)
  • Indonesian (1)
  • Italian (3)
  • Japanese (1)
  • Kannada (1)
  • Kashmiri (1)
  • Korean (10)
  • Malay (1)
  • Malayalam (2)
  • Nepali (1)
  • Oriya (1)
  • Panjabi (3)
  • Persian (1)
  • Polish (2)
  • Portuguese (1)
  • Punjabi (6)
  • Romanian (1)
  • Russian (1)
  • Spanish (61)
  • Swahili (1)
  • Tagalog (11)
  • Tamil (5)
  • Telugu (4)
  • Thai (1)
  • Turkish (1)
  • Urdu (7)
  • Vietnamese (1)
  • Yoruba (2)
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Patient Satisfaction

Patient Satisfaction
  • 5 Stars (190)
  • 4 Stars And Higher (398)
  • 3 Stars And Higher (568)
  • 2 Stars And Higher (623)
  • 1 Star And Higher (671)

Affiliated Facility

Affiliated Facility
  • Howard County General Hospital (108)
  • Ascension Saint Agnes Hospital (73)
  • UM Baltimore Washington Medical Center (69)
  • University Of Maryland Medical Center (61)
  • Anne Arundel Medical Center (36)
  • University of Maryland Medical Center Midtown Campus (25)
  • MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital (25)
  • Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center (24)
  • Greater Baltimore Medical Center (20)
  • Children's National Hospital (20)
  • University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute (17)
  • University of Maryland Capital Region Medical Center (16)
  • UM Charles Regional Medical Center (15)
  • Luminis Health Doctors Community Medical Ctr (14)
  • Frederick Health Hospital (12)
  • Meritus Medical Center (12)
  • Holy Cross Hospital (10)
  • University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center (10)
  • Northwest Hospital Center (10)
  • Calverthealth Medical Center (9)
  • Mercy Medical Center (9)
  • Sinai Hospital of Baltimore (9)
  • Adventist Healthcare White Oak Medical Center (8)
  • UM Upper Chesapeake Health (7)
  • Inova Alexandria Hospital (6)
  • The Johns Hopkins Hospital (6)
  • MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center (6)
  • Medstar Montgomery Medical Center (6)
  • Inova Loudoun Hospital (5)
  • Carroll Hospital Center (5)
  • Crozer-Chester Medical Center (4)
  • Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical Center (4)
  • Medstar Southern Maryland Hospital Center (4)
  • UPMC Western Maryland (4)
  • Suburban Hospital (4)
  • Medstar Georgetown University Hospital (4)
  • University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown (3)
  • Riddle Memorial Hospital (3)
  • Lahey Hospital and Medical Center (3)
  • Inova Fairfax Hospital (3)
  • Medstar Harbor Hospital (3)
  • Wilkes - Barre General Hospital (3)
  • Medical City Plano (3)
  • University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Easton (3)
  • Upmc Hanover (3)
  • Sibley Memorial Hospital (3)
  • Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Plano (3)
  • Medstar Union Memorial Hospital (3)
  • Milton S Hershey Medical Center (3)
  • Tidalhealth Peninsula Regional (3)
  • Chilton Medical Center (3)
  • Upmc Memorial (3)
  • Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital (3)
  • Duke Health Raleigh Hospital (2)
  • UCHealth University of Colorado Hospital (2)
  • Howard University Hospital (2)
  • MedStar St. Mary's Hospital (2)
  • Grace Medical Center (2)
  • Doylestown Hospital (2)
  • United Medical Center (2)
  • Ocean University Medical Center (2)
  • Beebe Medical Center (2)
  • Stafford Hospital (2)
  • Winchester Medical Center (2)
  • WellSpan York Hospital (2)
  • UM Harford Memorial Hospital (2)
  • Adventist Healthcare Fort Washington Medical Center (2)
  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (2)
  • Ascension Providence Hospital - Southfield Campus (2)
  • Medstar Washington Hospital Center (2)
  • Holy Cross Germantown Hospital (2)
  • Holy Redeemer Hospital (2)
  • Stonesprings Hospital Center (2)
  • WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital (2)
  • Novant Health Matthews Medical Center (2)
  • South Shore Hospital (2)
  • Houston Methodist West Hospital (2)
  • Chester County Hospital (2)
  • Virginia Hospital Center (2)
  • Christiana Hospital (2)
  • Bridgeport Hospital (1)
  • Uchealth Highlands Ranch Hospital (1)
  • Jersey Shore University Medical Center (1)
  • Ascension Seton Williamson (1)
  • Adena Regional Medical Center (1)
  • Memorial Regional Hospital (1)
  • St. Joseph Medical Center (1)
  • Frankfort Regional Medical Center (1)
  • Baptist Health Corbin (1)
  • Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport-st Mary Medical Cent (1)
  • Atrium Health Carolinas Medical Center (1)
  • Mount Desert Island Hospital (1)
  • New York Presbyterian Hospital (1)
  • Pennsylvania Hospital (1)
  • Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City (1)
  • Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center (1)
  • St. Mary's Hospital (1)
  • Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center (1)
  • Potomac Valley Hospital (1)
  • United Hospital (1)
  • Henrico Doctors' Hospital (1)
  • Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Centennial (1)
  • Mary Washington Hospital (1)
  • Cooper University Hospital (1)
  • St. Mary Medical Center (1)
  • Tampa General Hospital (1)
  • The George Washington University Hospital (1)
  • Tristar Greenview Regional Hospital (1)
  • Hawkins County Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Memorial Healthcare (1)
  • Wayne Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Columbia Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Hunterdon Medical Center (1)
  • Regional Hospital Of Scranton (1)
  • Baystate Medical Center (1)
  • Candler Hospital (1)
  • Lancaster General Hospital (1)
  • Saint Joseph's Medical Center (1)
  • Uf Health Jacksonville (1)
  • Ochsner Lsu Health Shreveport (1)
  • Saint Clare's Denville Hospital (1)
  • Monmouth Medical Center (1)
  • Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital (1)
  • Memorial Medical Center (1)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (1)
  • Paoli Hospital (1)
  • Essentia Health - Moose Lake (1)
  • Sisters Of Charity Hospital (1)
  • Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center (1)
  • The Woman's Hospital of Texas (1)
  • Platte Valley Medical Center (1)
  • Aurora Medical Center in Kenosha (1)
  • Mercy Hospital Of Buffalo (1)
  • Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center (1)
  • Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center (1)
  • Miami Valley Hospital (1)
  • OU Health - University of Oklahoma Medical Center (1)
  • Ascension Genesys Hospital (1)
  • Spring View Hospital (1)
  • Anderson County Hospital (1)
  • Cheyenne Regional Medical Center – West Campus (1)
  • Salem Hospital (1)
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center (1)
  • Jefferson Einstein Montgomery Hospital (1)
  • Centrastate Medical Center (1)
  • Swedish First Hill Campus (1)
  • Trinity Health Livonia Hospital (1)
  • Augusta Health (1)
  • Temple University Hospital (1)
  • Mercy Health - Springfield Regional Medical Center (1)
  • St. Mary's Medical Center (1)
  • HCA Florida Brandon Hospital (1)
  • CHI St. Alexius Health Williston (1)
  • Sentara Norfolk General Hospital (1)
  • Berkeley Medical Center (1)
  • Stormont Vail Health Flint Hills (1)
  • Wellspan Chambersburg Hospital (1)
  • Fauquier Hospital (1)
  • Beaumont Hospital - Dearborn (1)
  • Duke University Hospital (1)
  • Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospital (1)
  • CHI Health Creighton University Medical Center - Bergan Mercy (1)
  • Northside Hospital (1)
  • Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital (1)
  • Sierra Vista Hospital (1)
  • Valley Hospital Medical Center (1)
  • Henry Ford Hospital (1)
  • Cook Hospital (1)
  • King's Daughters Medical Center (1)
  • Bryn Mawr Hospital (1)
  • Mayo Clinic in Florida (1)
  • Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center (1)
  • Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin (1)
  • Ochsner LSU Health - Monroe Medical Center (1)
  • Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville (1)
  • MemorialCare Long Beach Medical Center (1)
  • Beloit Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center (1)
  • Valley Health War Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Choctaw Nation Health Care Center (1)
  • Baptist Medical Center Nassau (1)
  • Kettering Health Dayton (1)
  • Mountain View Regional Medical Center (1)
  • Wyandot Memorial Hospital (1)
  • Swedish Cherry Hill Campus (1)
  • Yakima Valley Memorial (1)
  • Mercy Health - St. Vincent Medical Center (1)
  • Centra Lynchburg General Hospital (1)
  • UP Health System - Marquette (1)
  • Presbyterian Hospital (1)
  • Putnam Hospital Center (1)
  • Kent Hospital (1)
  • Oneida Health Hospital (1)
  • ECU Health Medical Center (1)
  • Lankenau Medical Center (1)
  • Brooklyn Hospital Center Downtown (1)
  • Saint Barnabas Hospital (1)
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  • Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA), Philadelphia (1)
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  • Rush University Medical Center (1)
  • Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center (1)
  • Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital (1)
  • Los Angeles Community Hospital (1)
  • Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside Hospital (1)
  • Ascension Seton Northwest (1)
  • HCA Houston Healthcare Pearland (1)
  • Cabell Huntington Hospital (1)
  • Holland Hospital (1)
  • Saint Luke's South Hospital (1)
  • CHI St Joseph Regional Health Care Center (1)
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Primary Care Frequently Asked Questions

Medically reviewed by Meredith Goodwin, MD, FAAFP – Written by Megan Lentz
What is a primary care doctor?

Primary care physicians (PCPs) — also known as primary care providers — are a vital part of your preventive care and wellness. All your routine care needs such as annual physicals, vaccinations, and lab work can be addressed by your PCP.

A PCP can be a family medicine provider, internist, or some other healthcare professionals who practice general medicine.

By working with other members of your healthcare team, your PCP can help you manage your overall health.

How often should I see a PCP?

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It's recommended that you see a primary care doctor once a year. You may need to see them more often if you have new healthcare concerns or are living with a chronic health condition.

What procedures do PCPs perform?

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Primary care physicians can perform the following procedures:

This is not an exhaustive list. Reach out to your PCP to find out what they can do or what might need a referral to a specialist.

What conditions do PCPs treat?

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Primary care physicians can treat a wide range of symptoms and conditions. Some conditions your PCP may be able to treat are:

PCPs are also great resources for all of your health concerns. Even if you see your PCP for a condition that they don't directly treat, they can help refer you to a specialist.

Types of PCPs

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The following are specific types of primary care physicians:

  • Family practitioners can treat everyone in your family, regardless of age.
  • Internists only treat adults.
  • Geriatricians specialize in treating older adults.
  • Pediatricians specialize in treating babies and children under the age of 18.

You can also receive primary care from a physician's assistant (PA) or nurse practitioner (NP).

What should I ask a PCP?

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Top questions to ask a primary care physician during your next appointment include:

  • Do you have a specialty or area of interest?
  • Are there vitamins or supplements you recommend?
  • Do you recommend seeing a specialist? Can you refer me to one?
  • What are common health concerns for people my age? What can I do to reduce my risk?
  • Can I manage this condition with diet and lifestyle changes?
  • Is this test necessary? Are there other tests you recommend?
  • Do you have recommendations for managing my weight?
  • How much sleep should I get at night? What can I do to improve my sleep?
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