Thomas Phillip Cestare, MD| Pain Medicine | MedStar Health

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

4.8 out of 5 (43 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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1133 21st Street Northwest
Suite 1000
Washington, DC, 20036

202-223-9040

Fax 202-223-9047

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Fax 202-223-9047

1133 21st Street Northwest
Building 2
Washington, DC, 20036

202-416-2073

Fax 202-416-2006

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Fax 202-416-2006

13950 Brandywine Road
Lower Level
Brandywine, MD, 20613

301-782-2303
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Insurance

MedStar Medical Group accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Medical Group, please call your insurance company.

  • List of insurance plans we accept
    • Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
    • Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
    • Aetna Student Health Insurance
    • Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
    • CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO
    • CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
    • CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
    • CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO
    • CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity
    • CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
    • CIGNA POS/Network POS
    • Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
    • CIGNA Indemnity
    • Coventry Health Care of Virginia
    • Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
    • First Health PPO
    • FIRST HEALTH
    • Tricare Prime
    • Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
    • MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
    • MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)
    • United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
    • United Healthcare Choice Plus
    • M.D. IPA (HMO)
    • M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
    • Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
    • Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
    • Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
    • Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
    • United Healthcare Choice
    • CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)
    • Network OA
    • POS OA & OA Plus
    • CIGNA EPO
    • PPO and PPO Plus
    • Choice Fund PPO
    • CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO
    • HealthyBlue PPO
    • CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
    • BlueChoice Open Access
    • Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
    • Innovation Health: Indemnity
    • Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
    • Innovation Health: PPO
    • Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
    • Innovation Health: POS Plus
    • Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
    • Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
    • Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
    • Innovation Health: POS
    • Open HMO
    • Opoen HMO Option
    • Open EPO Plus
    • Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
    • Choice POS & Choice POS II
    • Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
    • Open POS II
    • Aetna HMO
    • Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
    • Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus
    • Aetna Better Health of Maryland
    • Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)"
    • CFBCBS EPO
    • CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
    • Cigna HealthSpring Medicare Advantage
    • Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO
    • Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS
    • Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)
    • Kaiser Permanente Select
    • Kaiser Permanente Signature
    • Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
    • Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice
    • Kaiser Virginia Premier
    • Medicare Fee for Service
    • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
    • UHC Community Plan of MD
    • United Healthcare Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO, GEHA, Compass Rose)"
    • UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans/ UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans HMO, POS, PPO"
    • UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv/Special Needs Plans
    • Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select (aka Senior Advantage)"

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

  • Provider explained things understandably

    4.8
  • Provider listened carefully

    4.8
  • Provider knew medical history

    4.8
  • Provider showed respect

    4.8
  • Provider spent enough time with patient

    4.8
  • Jan 31, 2023

    Overall Great experience

  • Jan 30, 2023

    My experience was not good

  • Jan 17, 2023

    We worked out a plan for moving forward