Florina Mihaela Constantinescu, MD| Rheumatology | MedStar Health
About me
- Director of the Division of Rheumatology, MedStar Washington Hospital Center
- Program Director of the Rheumatology Fellowship at MedStar Washington Hospital Center
- Associate Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center
- President of DC Rheumatism Society 2021- 2022
- Medical research publications available through PubMed
Voted Top Doctor by:
- The Washingtonian 2019, 2022
- Northern Virginia Magazine 2021, 2022
- Washington Consumers Checkbook 2022
Clinical areas of focus
- Arthritis
- Biologic Therapy For Rheumatologic Diseases
- Gout
- Joint Injection
- Myositis
- Non Surgical Management Of Osteoarthritis
- Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Scleroderma
- Sjogrens
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Vasculitis
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Acute Arthritis
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Anti Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies
- Antiphospholipid Syndrome
- Aortic Arteritis
- Arthralgia
- Arthritis
- Arthritis Of Multiple Joints
- Arthropathy
- Behcet Syndrome
- Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition Disease
- Cranial Arteritis
- Crest
- Crystalline Arthritis
- Cutaneous Vasculitis
- Dermatomyositis
- Discoid Lupus Erythematosus
- Enthesitis
- Erythema Nodosum
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Fibromyalgia
- Giant Cell Arteritis
- Gonococcal Arthritis
- Gout
- Granulomatosis With Polyangiitis
- Iga Vasculitis
- Igg 4 Related Diseases
- Inflammatory Polyarthropathy
- Isolated Central Nervous System Vasculitis
- Joint Disorder Of Multiple Joints
- Joint Effusion
- Joint Swelling
- Lupus Nephritis
- Macrophage Activation Syndrome
- Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
- Monoarticular Arthritis
- Myositis
- Neonatal Lupus Erythematosus
- Osteoarthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Periodic Fever Syndromes
- Polyarteritis Nodosa
- Polyarthralgia
- Polyarthropathy
- Polychondritis
- Polymyalgia Rheumatica
- Polymyositis
- Positive Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Test
- Post Infectious Arthritis
- Pseudogout
- Psoriatic Arthritis
- Raynaud's Disease
- Reactive Arthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Sacroiliitis
- Sarcoidosis
- Scleroderma
- Sjogrens
- Spondyloarthropathy
- Still's Disease
- Synovitis
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
- Systemic Scleroderma
- Tenosynovitis
- Tophus
- Undifferentiated Connective Tissue Disease
- Uveitis
- Vasculitis
Procedures I perform
- Biologic Therapy For Rheumatologic Diseases
- Joint Injection
- Non Surgical Management Of Osteoarthritis
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 Golden Rule
- United Choice
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO) |
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- United GEHA (for all other states) Compass Rose
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- Medicaid - District of Columbia
- Kaiser HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Cigna EPO
- Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
- Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- Innovation Health: POS
- United Choice Plus
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Cigna HMO Open Access
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- Cigna POS/Network POS
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- CareFirst Blue Card Program (Out-of-area BCBS plans)
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- United Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- United Erickson Advantage Plans
- United Group Medicare Advantage Plans
- Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- United Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO)
- United Navigate
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network (VA CCN)
- Tricare East Select
- Kaiser Signature
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
- United Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Cigna HMO & Network (HMO)
- Carefirst BlueChoice HMO
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Open Access
- United Optimum Choice
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Police and Fire Clinic
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Tricare East Prime
- Cigna Choice Fund PPO
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- CareFirst NASCO
- Carefirst EPO
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- United Mamsi Life & Health
- Kaiser Select
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- Kaiser Medicare Plus
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- Carefirst BlueChoice Open Access
- Kaiser Select-Added Choice
- WellPoint Maryland
- Medicaid - Maryland
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- I-SNP
- Cigna Indemnity
- Innovation Health: Open POS II
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Cigna POS Open Access & Open Access Plus
- United Student Resources
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Kaiser Flexible Choice
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan (USFHP)
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Cigna Network Open Access
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- CareFirst Administrators
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- Virginia Premier
- Medicaid - Virginia
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- Carefirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- Cigna Preferred Medicare
- D-SNP)
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst BC/BS Advantage Core/Enhanced
- HumanaChoice Honor’s plan PPO
- United Select Plus (POS)
- HealthyBlue PPO
- United Core Essential (HMO)
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Traditional Medicare Fee for Service
- Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- United AARP Medicare Complete
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- United MD IPA Preferred (POS)
- Tricare for Life East
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- Carefirst Healthy Blue (HMO/POS)
- United Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Kaiser Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- Cigna PPO and PPO Plus
- United Nursing Home Plan (C-SNP
- United Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- United MD IPA (HMO)
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- First Health PPO
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
Education
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology
Fellowship Program: MedStar Georgetown Univ Hosp/Washington Hosp Ctr (2006)
Residency Program: Norwalk Hospital Yale University (2004)
Medical School: Universitatea de Medicina si Farmacie (1998)