Abhijit S. Bhatia, MD| Gastroenterology | MedStar Health
Abhijit S. Bhatia

Abhijit S. Bhatia, MD
Provider is directly employed by MedStar Health

4.8 out of 5 (765 reviews)

Specialties: Gastroenterology

Languages: Punjabi, Hindi, English

410-261-8312

About me

Abhijit Bhatia, MD, is the chief of gastroenterology and director of endoscopy at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital/MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital. He is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology and fellowship trained in gastroenterology. 

Dr. Bhatia specializes in general gastroenterology, including but not limited to, EGD, which allows diagnosis and treatment of problems in the upper gastrointestinal tract; Colonoscopy to check for colon cancer and colon polyps; Capsule endoscopy;  Liver and gallbladder disease; Fatty liver disease; Hepatitis C.

Clinical areas of focus

  • Abdominal Bloating
  • Abdominal Distention
  • Abdominal Pain
  • Abnormal Bowel Movement
  • Abnormal Stool
  • Altered Bowel Habits
  • Anal Fissure
  • Bleeding Hemorrhoids
  • Blood In Stool
  • Chronic Diarrhea
  • Colonoscopy
  • Constipation
  • Diarrhea
  • Dysphagia
  • Epigastric Pain
  • Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
  • Gastrointestinal Bleeding
  • Helicobacter Pylori
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Melena
  • Nausea
  • Postprandial Diarrhea
  • Rectal Bleeding
  • Rectal Pain
  • Stomach Cramps
  • Stomach Pain
  • Swallowing Problem
  • Vomiting

Conditions and procedures

Conditions I treat

  • Abdominal Bloating
  • Abdominal Distention
  • Abdominal Pain
  • Abnormal Amylase Blood Test
  • Abnormal Bowel Movement
  • Abnormal Liver Function Blood Test
  • Abnormal Stool
  • Achalasia
  • Acute Pancreatitis
  • Alcoholic Liver Disease
  • Allergic Esophagitis
  • Altered Bowel Habits
  • Anal Cancer
  • Anal Fissure
  • Anal Fistula
  • Anal Itching
  • Anal Pain
  • Anal Spasm
  • Annular Pancreas
  • Anorexia
  • Autoimmune Enteropathy
  • Barrett's Esophagus
  • Benign Neoplasm Of Colon
  • Biliary Tract Disease
  • Bleeding Hemorrhoids
  • Blood In Stool
  • Bowel Dysmotility
  • Bright Red Blood Per Rectum
  • Choking Sensation
  • Cholangitis
  • Cholecystitis
  • Cholelithiasis
  • Cholestasis
  • Chronic Abdominal Pain
  • Chronic Diarrhea
  • Chronic Pancreatitis
  • Clostridium Difficile
  • Colitis
  • Collagenous Colitis
  • Colonic Inertia
  • Colorectal Malignancy
  • Constipation
  • Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome
  • Diarrhea
  • Digestive Disorders
  • Diverticulitis
  • Drug Induced Liver Injury
  • Duodenal Ulcer
  • Duodenitis
  • Dyspepsia
  • Dysphagia
  • Early Satiety
  • Elevated Alkaline Phosphatase Level
  • Elevated Lipase
  • Eosinophilic Colitis
  • Eosinophilic Enteritis
  • Eosinophilic Esophagitis
  • Eosinophilic Gastritis
  • Epigastric Pain
  • Eructation
  • Esophageal Cancer
  • Esophageal Disease
  • Esophageal Diverticulum
  • Esophageal Mass
  • Esophageal Motility Disorders
  • Esophageal Spasm
  • Esophageal Stricture
  • Esophageal Thickening
  • Esophageal Ulcer
  • Esophageal Varices
  • Esophagitis
  • Family History Of Colon Cancer
  • Family History Of Colon Polyps
  • Fatty Liver
  • Fecal Impaction
  • Fecal Incontinence
  • Flatulence
  • Focal Nodular Hyperplasia
  • Gallbladder Cancer
  • Gallbladder Polyp
  • Gastric Ulcer
  • Gastroenteritis
  • Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease
  • Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer
  • Gastrointestinal (GI) Stromal Tumors
  • Gastrointestinal Amyloid
  • Gastrointestinal Bleeding
  • Gastrojejunal Ulcer
  • Gastroparesis
  • Giardiasis
  • Gluten Sensitivity
  • Helicobacter Pylori
  • Hematemesis
  • Hemochromatosis
  • Hemorrhoids
  • Hepatitis
  • Hepatomegaly
  • Hiatal Hernia
  • Ileitis
  • Intestinal Obstruction
  • Intractable Vomiting
  • Iron Deficiency Anemia
  • Irritable Bowel Syndrome
  • Ischemic Bowel
  • Ischemic Colitis
  • Jaundice
  • Lactose Intolerance
  • Left Upper Quadrant Pain
  • Liver Disease
  • Liver Mass
  • Lymphocytic Colitis
  • Lynch Syndrome
  • Malabsorption
  • Malignant Neoplasm Of Stomach
  • Melena
  • Microscopic Colitis
  • Nausea
  • Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease
  • Non Alcoholic Steatohepatitis
  • Obstipation
  • Obstructive Jaundice
  • Odynophagia
  • Ogilvie Syndrome
  • Pancreas Divisum
  • Pancreatic Cyst
  • Pancreatic Insufficiency
  • Pancreatic Pseudocyst
  • Pancreaticobiliary Disease
  • Peptic Ulcer
  • Peritonitis
  • Pernicious Anemia
  • Personal History Of Colonic Polyps
  • Peutz Jeghers Syndrome
  • Polyposis Syndrome
  • Portal Hypertension
  • Portal Hypertensive Gastropathy
  • Positive Hemoccult Fecal Occult Blood Test
  • Postprandial Diarrhea
  • Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
  • Proctitis
  • Rectal Bleeding
  • Rectal Cancer
  • Rectal Pain
  • Right Lower Quadrant Pain
  • Right Upper Quadrant Pain
  • Short Bowel Syndrome
  • Small Intestine Cancer
  • Steatorrhea
  • Stomach Cancer
  • Stomach Cramps
  • Stomach Disorders
  • Stomach Pain
  • Swallowing Problem
  • Toxic Liver Injury
  • Ulcerative Proctitis
  • Vomiting
  • Whipple's Disease
  • Wilson's Disease
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Procedures I perform

  • Biologic Therapy For Gastrointestinal Diseases
  • Colon Polypectomy
  • Colonoscopy
  • Endoscopy
  • Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD)
  • Feeding Tube Management
  • Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancer Screening
  • Gastroscopy
  • Peg (PERCUTANEOUS ENDOSCOPIC GASTROSTOMY)
  • Proctosigmoidoscopy
  • Sigmoidoscopy
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Practice locations

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12 Medstar Boulevard
Suite 220
Bel Air, MD, 21015

443-782-7640
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201 East University Parkway
Suite 33233
Baltimore, MD, 21218

443-782-7640
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200 East 33rd Street
33RD STREET PROFESSIONAL BLDG
Floor 2
Baltimore, MD, 21218

410-554-6652
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201 East University Parkway
Baltimore, MD, 21218

410-554-2000
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5601 Loch Raven Boulevard
Baltimore, MD, 21239

443-444-8000
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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.

    • Blue Choice Advantage & Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)

      CFBCBS Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)

      CFBCBS EPO

      CFBCBS (NCA) Indemnity

      CFBCBS Maryland Indemnity or PPO

      HealthyBlue PPO

      CFBSBC Blue Preferred PPO

      CFBCBS Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)

      CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)

      CFBCBS BlueChoice HMO

      BlueChoice Open Access

      CFBCBS Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access

    • 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

      UHC Community Plan of MD

      Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)

      Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)

      M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)

      M.D. IPA (HMO)

      United Student Resources

      United Healthcare Choice Plus

      United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)

      United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP

      United Healthcare Choice

    • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)

    • Medicare Fee for Service

    • Kaiser Virginia Premier

      Kaiser PermanenteSelect-Added Choice

      Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice

      Kaiser Permanente Signature

      Kaiser Permanente Select

      Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus (Medicare Supplemental Plan)

      Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS

      Kaiser MD Medicaid MCO

    • Cigna HealthSpring Medicare Advantage

      CIGNA Indemnity

      Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA

      CIGNA POS/Network POS

      CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)

      POS OA & OA Plus

      Network OA

      CIGNA HMO Open Access (OA)

      Choice Fund PPO

      PPO and PPO Plus

      Cigna EPO

    • Aetna Better Health of Maryland

      Aetna Worker's Compensation Network

      Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans

      Innovation Health: Indemnity

      Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)

      Innovation Health: PPO

      Aetna Open Choice (PPO)

      Aetna Student Health Insurance

      Innovation Health: POS Plus

      Aetna Managed Choice (POS)

      Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus

      Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)

      Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)

      Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund) Innovation Health: Network Only Plus

      Open EPO Plus

      Opoen HMO Option

      Open HMO

      Innovation Health: POS

      Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA

      Open POS II

      Innovation Health: Open POS Plus

      Choice POS & Choice POS II

      Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)

      Aetna Innovations: HMO & EPO Plus

      Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network

      Aetna HMO

    • Tricare for Life (Medicare Supplemental Plan)

      Tricare Prime

    • MedStar Select (MedStar Associates' Plan)

    • MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice

    • FIRST HEALTH

    • Coventry Health Care National Network PPO

      First Health PPO

      Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO

      Coventry Health Care of Virginia

Education

Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine

Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology

Fellowship: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (2004)

Residency: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine (2001)

Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine Office of the Dean for Academic Affairs (1998)

Ratings and reviews

  • Explanations the care provider gave you about your problem or condition

    4.8
  • Extent to which the care provider listened to you

    4.9
  • Care provider’s discussion of any proposed treatment (options, risks, benefits, etc.)

    4.8
  • Provider included you in decisions

    4.8
  • Concern the care provider showed for your questions or worries

    4.9
  • Likelihood of recommending this care provider to others

    4.8
  • Oct 30, 2024

    Good

  • Oct 24, 2024

    Dr. Bhatia is the best! He listens to your concerns, and explains in great detail the next steps. He definitely made me feel a resolution was within reach. He gave me hope! He deserves 10

  • Oct 23, 2024

    Dr. Bhatia is one of my best physicians I have no complaints about him. He is a wonderful person and physician.