About me
Dr. Buch is a double fellowship-trained transplant nephrologist who cares for patients with kidney transplants, liver-kidney transplants, and kidney-pancreas transplants. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Buch’s areas of special interest and research include improving access to transplantation, strategies to increase organ donation, and overcoming barriers to transplantation among veterans. She sees patients at MedStar Washington Hospital Center and MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
Dr. Buch treats patients and their families with the same care and compassion she would want to be treated with by healthcare providers and provides a holistic approach to care for each patient.
She earned her medical degree from Kesar Sal Medical College and Research Institute in Ahmedabad, India and completed her residency in internal medicine at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. She completed a nephrology fellowship at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore and a fellowship in transplant nephrology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
When she’s not working, Dr. Buch enjoys classical Indian and Bollywood dance, volunteering at cultural events, and traveling.
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
- United Select Plus (POS)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Carefirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Cigna HMO Open Access
- Medicaid - Maryland
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Kaiser HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
- United MD IPA Preferred (POS)
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- United Core Essential (HMO)
- Tricare for Life East
- Tricare East Prime
- United Nursing Home Plan (C-SNP
- Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- United Student Resources
- HumanaChoice PPO
- United AARP Medicare Complete
- Kaiser Select
- Medicaid - Virginia
- Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Anthem (POS & Open Access POS) BCBS of VA HealthKeepers
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Kaiser Flexible Choice
- HealthyBlue PPO
- D-SNP)
- Carefirst BlueChoice HMO
- I-SNP
- Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Carefirst Healthy Blue (HMO/POS)
- United Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Innovation Health: Open POS II
- United Golden Rule
- Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- CareFirst Blue Card Program (Out-of-area BCBS plans)
- Aetna HMO
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Traditional Medicare Fee for Service
- United MD IPA (HMO)
- Virginia Premier
- Kaiser Signature
- United Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- United Choice Plus
- United Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Cigna Preferred Medicare
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Medicaid - District of Columbia
- Cigna EPO
- Cigna POS/Network POS
- Carefirst BlueChoice Open Access
- United Group Medicare Advantage Plans
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- United Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- CareFirst BC/BS Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- United Choice
- Cigna PPO and PPO Plus
- WellPoint Maryland
- Kaiser Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Cigna Choice Fund PPO
- United Optimum Choice
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Cigna POS Open Access & Open Access Plus
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Open Access
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- United Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Cigna Network Open Access
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network (VA CCN)
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Innovation Health: POS
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- CareFirst Administrators
- United Erickson Advantage Plans
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Beech Street PPO
- Cigna HMO & Network (HMO)
- United Mamsi Life & Health
- United Navigate
- United GEHA (for all other states) Compass Rose
- Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Cigna Indemnity
- Kaiser Medicare Plus
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Kaiser Select-Added Choice
- CareFirst NASCO
- Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- Anthem Plus BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
- Tricare East Select
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO) |
- Anthem HMO - BCBS of VA HealthKeepers
- Carefirst EPO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- HumanaChoice Honor’s plan PPO
- First Health PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
Education
Fellowship: Georgetown University Medical Center GME (2021)
Residency: University of Maryland Medicine GME (2020)
Residency: Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center (2018)
Medical School: B J Medical College-Ahmedabad (2012)