Oncology
Leonard Saltz, MD
Executive Director, Clinical Value and Sustainability
Leonard B. Saltz, MD, is a medical oncologist specializing in gastrointestinal cancers, with a primary focus on colon cancer, rectal cancer, and neuroendocrine tumors including pancreatic NETs, GI NETs, and those with liver metastasis. He treats a broad spectrum of digestive tract malignancies such as liver, pancreatic, stomach, esophageal, and anal cancers, as well as GI stromal tumors, cancer of unknown primary origin, adrenal cancers, and pheochromocytomas. Dr. Saltz serves adult patients, in
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Credentials
Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine (ABIM)
- Hematology (ABIM)
- Medical Oncology (ABIM)
Education & Training
- Medical School: Yale School of Medicine (MD, 1983)
- Residency: New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Internal Medicine, 1986)
- Fellowship: New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Hematology-Oncology, 1989)
Years in Practice
40+ years
Peer Recognition
2023-2024 (2 years)
- Super Doctors — Super Doctor
Clinical Focus
Subspecialties
Conditions & Treatments
Insurance(s) Accepted
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Practice Details
Hospital Affiliations
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- NYC Health + Hospitals / Bellevue
- NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
Languages
English
Conditions Dr. Saltz treats
Insurance accepted
- 90 Degree Benefits
- Aetna
- Allegiance Health Plans
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Aspirus Health Plan
- ASR Health Benefits
- Asuris Northwest Health
- Avera Health Plans
- Banner Health Aetna
- BridgeSpan Health Company
- Centivo
- Cigna
- ConnectiCare
- Dean Health Plan
- Denver Health Medical Plan, Inc.
- EmblemHealth
- EMI Health
- Employee Benefit Management Services, Inc. (MT)
- Fidelis
- First Health
- Flume Health
- Hawaii Medical Assurance Association
- Health Alliance Plan (HAP)
- Health Plans Inc.
- Healthcare Management Administrators (HMA)
- Healthfirst NY
- Healthgram
- HealthPartners
- HealthSmart
- Homestead Health Plans
- Kaiser Permanente
- LifeWise Health Plan
- Lucent Health
- MagnaCare
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MedCost
- Medica
- Medical Mutual of Ohio
- Mending
- Meritain
- Moda Health
- MotivHealth Insurance Company
- Nippon Life Insurance Company of America
- Personify Health (FKA HealthComp)
- Point C
- Prairie States
- Priority Health
- Providence Health Plan
- Quartz
- Sentara Health Plans
- The Health Plan
- UnitedHealthcare
- Univera Healthcare
- WebTPA
- WellCare
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Sources
- https://www.castleconnolly.com/top-doctors/leonard-b-saltz-medical-oncology-81cc039032
- https://www.doximity.com/pub/leonard-saltz-md
- https://connect.medicalnewstoday.com/provider/dr-leonard-saltz-1790756625
- https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/doctors/leonard-saltz
- https://netrf.org/specialist/dr-leonard-saltz-md/
- https://ascopost.com/issues/june-3-2016-narratives-special-issue/noted-gastrointestinal-oncologist-leonard-saltz-md-tempers-optimism-with-reality-and-factors-cost-into-the-equation-of-value-in-cancer-care/
- https://media.mycme.com/documents/411/bio_saltz_102643.pdf
- https://vivo.weill.cornell.edu/display/cwid-les2027