Melissa G Blumgart, AUD| Otolaryngology | MedStar Health
About me
Dr. Melissa Blumgart achieved her Doctorate in Audiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She completed the Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilites (LEND) fellowship training. She received her Bachelor of Science in Speech-Pathology and Audiology from Towson University. Dr. Blumgart is also fluent in American Sign Language.
At MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Dr. Melissa Blumgart performs diagnostic hearing evalautions for patients of all ages, including Auditory Brainstem Response evaluations. Dr. Blumgart recommends and programs pediatric and adult hearing aids, bone conduction hearing systems, and cochlear implants. She also performs vestibular evaluations.
Clinical areas of focus
- Auditory Brainstem Response Testing
- Auditory Implant Candidacy Evaluation
- Auditory Osseointegrated Devices
- Bone Conduction Hearing Aids
- Cochlear Implant Adjustment
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Hearing Aid Fitting
- Hearing Restoration Surgery
- Hearing Testing
- Newborn Screening Tests
- Speech Audiometry With Tympanometry
- Tinnitus
- Vestibular Testing
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Auditory Nerve Damage
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aid Issues
- Child Speech Disorders
- Cochlear Implant Complications
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Ear Fullness
- Ear Infection
- Ear Pain
- Eardrum Perforation
- Earwax Blockage
- Earwax Buildup
- Eustachian Tube Disorders
- Eustachian Tube Dysfunction
- Fungal Otitis Externa
- Hearing Aid Feedback
- Hearing Loss Due To Head Trauma
- Meniere's Disease
- Middle Ear Disorders
- Muffled Hearing
- Newborn Hearing Loss
- Nonsuppurative Otitis Media
- Otalgia
- Otalgia And Ear Effusion
- Otitis Media
- Otosclerosis
- Speech Sound Disorder
- Thalassemia
- Tinnitus
- Tympanic Membrane Perforation
- Vestibular Disorders
- Word Recognition Difficulties
Procedures I perform
- Auditory Brainstem Response Testing
- Auditory Implant Candidacy Evaluation
- Auditory Osseointegrated Devices
- Auditory Processing Disorder Evaluation
- Auditory Rehabilitation
- Bone Conduction Device
- Bone Conduction Hearing Aids
- Chronic Headache Treatment
- Cochlear Implant Adjustment
- Custom Ear Molds
- Dizziness And Balance Treatment
- Ear Canal Irrigation
- Ear Impressions
- Flash Electroretinography
- Fm System Fitting
- Gait And Balance Evaluation
- Hearing Aid Counseling
- Hearing Aid Fitting
- Hearing Assistance Technology
- Hearing Restoration Surgery
- Hearing Testing
- Impacted Earwax Removal
- Laryngeal Function Test
- Misophonia Treatment
- Neuromuscular Rehabilitation
- Newborn Screening Tests
- Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Prevention
- Pulsatile Tinnitus Treatment
- Semi-Implantable Hearing Devices
- Sound Therapy
- Speech Audiometry With Tympanometry
- Speech Reading
- Tinnitus Evaluation
- Tympanoplasty Without Mastoidectomy With Ossicular Chain Reconstruction
- Vestibular Testing
- Vestibuloplasty
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
- UHC Passport
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst Administrators
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Choice Fund PPO
- IH-Open HMO Option
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Classic 3500
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Aetna Basic
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- Core Essential (HMO)
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- CIGNA EPO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- IH-PPO
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- TRICARE for Life East
- Optimum Choice
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Network OA
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- IH-Indemnity
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Aetna HMO
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Beech Street PPO
- CareFirst EPO
- Choice POS
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- POS OA
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- IH-Open HMO
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Navigate
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Choice POS II Open Access
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- United Student Resources
- IH-POS Plus
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- United Healthcare Choice
- Employee Health Plan
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Sentara Health
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- CIGNA Indemnity
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Choice POS II
- IH-POS
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- HighMark
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- IH-Open POS II
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- TRICARE East Select
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Blue Choice Advantage
- IH-EPO Plus
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Medicare Direct
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- CIGNA PPO
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- First Health PPO
- Medicare FFS
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- MultiPlan, Inc
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- First Health PPO
- Aetna Classic 5000
- IH-HMO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- OA Plus
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Police and Fire Clinic
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- CareFirst NASCO
- TRICARE East Prime
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- HumanaChoice PPO
- HealthyBlue PPO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
Education
Board Certification: American Speech Language Hearing Association, Speech Pathology
Residency: Georgetown University (2019)
Graduate: University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (2019)