Thomas Phillip Cestare, MD| Pain Medicine | MedStar Health

Thomas Phillip Cestare, MD
Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health

4.8 out of 5 (181 reviews)

Specialties: Pain Medicine

Languages: English

301-782-2221

About me

Areas of clinical interest

  • Chronic pain conditions including neuropathic pain, spinal pain, and musculoskeletal pain
  • Interventional pain medicine (epidural steroid injections, facet radiofrequency ablation, and genicular radiofrequency ablation, and sympathetic blocks)
  • Neuromodulation (spinal cord stimulation, dorsal root ganglion stimulation, and peripheral nerve stimulation)

Philosophy of care

“I focus on care of the whole patient through a multi-modal, multidisciplinary, and individualized approach to each patient’s pain.”

Board certifications:

  • Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology
  • Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine

Clinical areas of focus

  • Pain Management
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Conditions and procedures

Conditions I treat

  • Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain Syndrome (AMPS)
  • Cancer Pain
  • Causalgia Of Lower Limb
  • Causalgia Of Upper Limb
  • Chronic Migraines
  • Chronic Pain
  • Degenerative Spine Pain
  • Diabetic Neuropathy
  • Erythromelalgia
  • Facet Joint Syndrome
  • Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
  • Fibromyalgia
  • HIV Neuropathy
  • Intractable Pain
  • Lumbosacral Radiculopathy
  • Migraine
  • Mononeuritis
  • Mononeuritis Multiplex
  • Musculocutaneous Neuropathy
  • Nerve Compression Syndrome
  • Neuralgia
  • Neuritis
  • Neuropathy
  • Opioid Issues
  • Pain Amplification Syndromes
  • Peripheral Neuropathy
  • Persistent Pain After Orthopedic Surgery
  • Phantom Limb
  • Plexitis
  • Polyneuropathy
  • Post Laminectomy Syndrome
  • Post Radiation Pain
  • Postherpetic Neuralgia
  • Radiculopathy
  • Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy
  • Spinal Stenosis
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Procedures I perform

  • Pain Management
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Practice locations

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3800 Reservoir Road Northwest
Washington, DC, 20007

202-444-8640

Fax 202-444-8854

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Fax 202-444-8854

13950 Brandywine Road
Lower Level
Brandywine, MD, 20613

301-782-2303
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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.

  • List of insurance plans we accept
    • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
    • Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
    • Cigna EPO
    • Innovation Health: Indemnity
    • Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
    • Aetna Student Health Insurance
    • Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
    • Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
    • Innovation Health: PPO
    • Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
    • Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
    • Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
    • Innovation Health: Open POS II
    • Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
    • Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
    • Innovation Health: POS Plus
    • Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
    • Innovation Health: POS
    • Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
    • Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
    • Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
    • Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
    • Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
    • Aetna HMO
    • Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
    • Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
    • Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
    • Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
    • HealthyBlue PPO
    • Coventry Health Care of Virginia
    • Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
    • First Health PPO
    • MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
    • Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
    • Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO

Education

Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Anesthesiology

Board Certification: American Board of Anesthesiology, Pain Medicine

Fellowship Program: New York Presbyterian Hospital (2020)

Residency Program: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (2019)

Internship Program: MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (2016)

Medical School: Georgetown University School of Medicine (2015)

Ratings and reviews

  • Explanations the care provider gave you about your problem or condition

    4.8
  • Extent to which the care provider listened to you

    4.8
  • Care provider's discussion of any proposed treatment (options, risks, benefits, etc.)

    4.7
  • Care provider's efforts to include you in decisions about your care

    4.8
  • Concern the care provider showed for your questions or worries

    4.8
  • Likelihood of recommending this care provider to others

    4.7
  • Feb 20, 2024

    Took their time to explain things to me but I still have fears about the treatment and just how safe it is, I missed that class.

  • Feb 8, 2024

    My Provider informed me very well of my concerns & needs treatments etc ..Yes I will recommend my Provider to Family, Friends & my Neighborhood.

  • Feb 6, 2024

    Thorough, Patient and ask questions concerning my condition.