About me
Michael Hoa, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Otolaryngology at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Hoa is board certified in otolaryngology-head and neck surgery, otology, and neurotology. Dr. Hoa serves as the medical director of the MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Cochlear Implant Program which provides comprehensive cochlear implant services to both pediatric and adult populations.
In addition to his duties as a neurotologist (ear and skull base surgeon), Dr. Hoa is a surgeon-scientist in the intramural research program at the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). His interest is in hearing restoration and preservation in the setting of hearing instability disorders and cochlear implantation. Prior to his arrival at Georgetown, Dr. Hoa completed an otolaryngology residency at Wayne State University School of Medicine and a neurotology fellowship at the prestigious House Clinic in Los Angeles. Dr. Hoa also received extensive research training at the associated House Research Institute under an NIH-sponsored institutional research training grant investigating the underlying mechanisms involved in hair cell regeneration.
In addition to the above, Dr. Hoa along with the skull base surgery team at Medstar Georgetown University Hospital offer all approaches for the treatment of acoustic neuroma (vestibular schwannoma) including hearing preservation (middle fossa approach, retrosigmoid approach) and non-hearing preservation approaches (translabyrinthine approach) as well as stereotactic radiosurgery treatments. His training and experience allow him to tailor the treatments to each patient’s needs.
Dr. Hoa and his team are one of the few surgeons in the region who offer the full range of hearing rehabilitation options to both adult and pediatric patients including, hearing aids, implantable hearing aids (i.e. Maxum, Esteem) for adults, active bone conducting hearing devices and cochlear implants. In addition, he also has advanced training in endoscopic ear surgery approaches allowing for minimally invasive options for ear surgery across the age spectrum.
Dr. Hoa's clinical interests include diagnosis and management of acoustic neuroma and skull base tumors (including hearing preservation surgical approaches); diagnosis and treatment of hearing loss (including otosclerosis and genetic hearing loss); hearing restoration (including cochlear implantation, implantable hearing devices); diagnosis and treatment of Meniere's disease; pediatric otology/neurotology and treatment of chronic ear infections including cholesteatoma.
"Treatments should be reflective of not only the best evidence but should also be tailored to meet the patient's needs and clinical situation. It is important to me that my patients are well informed and have all their questions answered. Treatment plans are a result of a joint discussion between myself and the patient."
Clinical areas of focus
- Acoustic Neuroma Removal
- Baha (BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID) Surgery
- Canalicular Laceration Repair
- Cochlear Implantation
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Endoscopic Ear Surgery
- Hearing Restoration Surgery
- Meningioma Surgery
- Otosclerosis
- Stapedotomy
- Tympanic Membrane Perforation
- Tympanoplasty With Mastoidectomy
- Tympanoplasty Without Mastoidectomy With Ossicular Chain Reconstruction
- Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Benign Neoplasm Of Bone And Articular Cartilage
- Benign Neoplasm Of Middle Ear
- Child Speech Disorders
- Conductive Hearing Loss
- Congenital Anomalies
- Congenital Malformations Of Ear
- Congenital Malformations Of Ear Causing Hearing Impairment
- Congenital Malformations Of Face And Neck
- Congenital Malformations Of Pharynx
- Disorders Of Trigeminal Nerve
- Effects Of External Causes
- Eustachian Tube Disorders
- Fungal Otitis Externa
- Hemangioma
- Inner Ear Diseases
- Malignant Neoplasm
- Malignant Neoplasm Of Meninges
- Mastoiditis
- Middle Ear Disorders
- Nonsuppurative Otitis Media
- Omphalocele
- Otalgia And Ear Effusion
- Otosclerosis
- Phakomatoses
- Presence Of Functional Implants
- Sleep Disorders
- Tympanic Membrane Perforation
- Vestibular Disorders
- Voice And Resonance Disorders
Procedures I perform
- Acoustic Neuroma Removal
- Acoustic Neuroma Surgery
- Asymmetrical Hearing Loss Treatment
- Auditory Brainstem Response Testing
- Auditory Evoked Potentials Screening
- Auditory Osseointegrated Implant
- Baha (BONE ANCHORED HEARING AID) Surgery
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV) Treatment
- Canalicular Laceration Repair
- Cochlear Implant Adjustment
- Cochlear Implantation
- Debridement Of Mastoidectomy Cavity
- Diagnostic Laryngoscopy
- Drainage Of External Auditory Canal
- Ear Cartilage Graft
- Ear Surgery
- Endolymphatic Sac Surgery
- Endoscopic Ear Surgery
- Endoscopic Sinus Surgery
- Eustachian Tube Dilation
- Glomus Tympanicum Tumor Surgery
- Hearing Aid Fitting
- Hearing Restoration Surgery
- Impacted Earwax Removal
- Labyrinthectomy
- Mastoidectomy
- Mastoidectomy Complete
- Meniere's Disease Treatment
- Meningioma Surgery
- Myringotomy
- Pulsatile Tinnitus Treatment
- Speech Audiometry With Tympanometry
- Stapedectomy
- Stapedotomy
- Translabyrinthine Surgery
- Tympanic Membrane Perforation Repair
- Tympanic Membrane Repair
- Tympanoplasty With Mastoidectomy
- Tympanoplasty With Radical Mastoidectomy
- Tympanoplasty Without Mastoidectomy
- Tympanoplasty Without Mastoidectomy With Ossicular Chain Reconstruction
- Tympanostomy
- Tympanostomy With Ventilating Tube
- Vestibular Schwannoma Surgery
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
- CareFirst EPO
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- IH-POS
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- Medicare FFS
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Sentara Health
- Aetna Classic 3500
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- IH-HMO
- Employee Health Plan
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- Blue Choice Advantage
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- BlueChoice Open Access
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- CIGNA EPO
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Optimum Choice
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- Choice POS
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- IH-EPO Plus
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Aetna HMO
- Beech Street PPO
- CIGNA PPO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- United Student Resources
- CIGNA Indemnity
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Aetna Classic 5000
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- First Health PPO
- First Health PPO
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- IH-POS Plus
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- United Healthcare Choice
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Aetna Basic
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- HighMark
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- Network OA
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- MultiPlan, Inc
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- HumanaChoice PPO
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- Choice Fund PPO
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- IH-PPO
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- CareFirst NASCO
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- IH-Indemnity
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- UHC Passport
- Medicare Direct
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- TRICARE for Life East
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- OA Plus
- POS OA
- Choice POS II
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- CareFirst Administrators
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- IH-Open POS II
- HealthyBlue PPO
- TRICARE East Select
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Core Essential (HMO)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- IH-Open HMO
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- TRICARE East Prime
- Navigate
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
Videos
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Fellowship: House Ear Institute (2012)
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine (2004)
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Selected Publications
- Slattery WH, Hoa M, Bonne N, Friedman RA, Schwartz MS, Fisher L, Brackman DE. Middle Fossa Decompression for Hearing Preservation: A Review of Institutional Results and Indications. Otol Neurotol 2011; 32(6):1017-24.
- Wilkinson EP, Hoa M, Slattery WH 3rd, Fayad JN, Friedman RA, Brackmann DE. Evolution in the management of facial nerve schwannoma. Laryngoscope 2011; 121(10):2065-74.
- Hoa M, Slattery WH 3rd. Update on Neurofibromatosis 2. Otolaryngol Clin N Am 2012; 45(2):315-32, viii.
- Hoa M, House JW, Linthicum FH Jr. Petrous apex cholesterol granuloma: Maintenance of the drainage pathway, the histopathology of surgical management, and histopathologic evidence for the exposed marrow theory. Otol Neurotol 2012; 33(6):1059-65.
- Hoa M, Drazin D, Hanna G, Schwartz M, Lekovic GP. The Approach to the Patient with Incidentally Diagnosed Vestibular Schwannoma. Neurosurg Focus 2012; 33(3):E2.
- Friedman RA, Hoa M, Brackmann DE. Surgical management of endolymphatic sac tumors. J Neurol Surg B 2013; 74(01):012-019 DOI: 10.1055/s-0032-1329622
For other publications, see the following link:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/michael.hoa.1/bibliography/public/