EXPERTISE WITH COMPASSION
For more than 25 years, Upstate Surgical Group has provided our patients with excellence in both inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures. As the premier general surgery group at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center, we have expertise in all areas of surgery. Each doctor brings an area of proficiency and unique specialties to the group. And with every surgery, we care for our patients with understanding and compassion.

At Upstate Surgical, a sense of calm expertise pervades our operating rooms. We are kind, thoughtful and humble, and we always put our patients first and foremost in our minds and hearts. We truly embody compassionate care for our patients and their families.

EXPERIENCED
The majority of our doctors trained when open abdominal surgery was the norm, giving them a vast amount of invaluable knowledge and experience not available in surgical training programs today. We fully understand the benefits of the laparoscopic era, but our experience enables us to feel completely comfortable with any procedure, regardless of the level of complication.

INNOVATIVE
Upstate physicians have always been on the leading edge of surgical capabilities in the Syracuse area:
• Among the first surgeons in Syracuse to use robotic laparoscopic surgery and perform laparoscopic colon surgery
• Some of the first and only surgeons in our area to perform breast ultrasounds and minimally-invasive stereotactic biopsy procedures in an office setting, including mammosites

 

• Aetna
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield (all products)
• Cigna (now owned by MVP)
• Champva
• Choicecare Network/HUMANA
• Empire Plan
• Fidelis-Medicaid Program
• First Health CCN
• GHI/Emblem Health
• Great West (we do par with PPO and Open Access, not POS)
• Medicaid
• Medicare
• Medicare Railroad
• MVP
• MVP Preferred Care
• MVP Gold
• North American Administrators-Meritain Health
• Oxford Health Plan - part of United Health Choice plus network
• PHCS - Private Health Care Systems
• Plumbers and Steamfitters
• POMCO
• Premier Health Network
• Quality Health Network
• RMSCO
• Siebel, LTD
• Statewide Independent PPO
• Tricare (not Tricare Prime)
• Totalcare-Medicaid Program - patient needs referral
• United Healthcare Insurance (We do not participate with United Healthcare Plus/Americhoice)
• Upstate Administrative Service