Catherine Demirel, PhD| Pediatric Audiology, Audiology | MedStar Health
About me
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Newborn Hearing Screening Coordinator
Pediatric Audiology Specialty Certification® (PASC)
Clinical areas of focus
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aid Assessment
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aids (BAHA)
- Hearing Loss
- Hearing Loss (ASYMMETRICAL)
- Hearing Loss (CENTRAL)
- Hearing Loss (CONDUCTIVE)
- Hearing Loss (MIXED)
- Hearing Loss (NEURAL)
- Muffled Hearing
- Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) Testing
Conditions and procedures
Procedures I perform
- Acoustic Immittance Testing
- Audiometry Testing
- Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) Test
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aid Assessment
- Bone Anchored Hearing Aids (BAHA)
- Hearing Aids
- Hearing Evaluation
- Newborn Hearing Screening
- Otoacoustic Emissions (OAE) Testing
- Tympanometry
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
- I-SNP
- United GEHA (for all other states) Compass Rose
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- United MD IPA (HMO)
- Kaiser Select-Added Choice
- Carefirst Blue Preferred PPO
- Cigna POS/Network POS
- Innovation Health: POS Plus
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- United Erickson Advantage Plans
- Tricare East Prime
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- Cigna Choice Fund PPO
- Cigna PPO and PPO Plus
- United Options (PPO) (includes Empire PPO)
- Cigna Indemnity
- Tricare for Life East
- CareFirst Administrators
- Carefirst Healthy Blue (HMO/POS)
- United Nursing Home Plan (C-SNP
- United Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs (HSCSN)
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Kaiser Permanente Signature-Added Choice
- Medicaid - Maryland
- United Student Resources
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- HealthyBlue PPO
- WellPoint Maryland
- United Choice Plus
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- Tricare East Select
- CareFirst Blue Card Program (Out-of-area BCBS plans)
- Kaiser Flexible Choice
- Cigna POS Open Access & Open Access Plus
- Aetna Choice POS & Choice POS II
- Aetna Open HMO/Open HMO Option/Open EPO Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- Innovation Health: Open POS Plus
- CareFirst BC/BS Advantage Core/Enhanced
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA
- Medicaid - Virginia
- Maryland Point of Service Plan (MPOS)
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network (VA CCN)
- Aetna HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- Kaiser HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Medicaid - District of Columbia
- HumanaChoice Honor’s plan PPO
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- United Navigate
- Beech Street PPO
- Innovation Health: PPO
- Cigna Preferred Medicare
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- United Mamsi Life & Health
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- Private Health Care Systems (PHCS) (PPO)
- Innovation Health: HMO & EPO Plus
- Traditional Medicare Fee for Service
- Carefirst BlueChoice Opt Out Open Access
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- Cigna EPO
- Kaiser Select
- United Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- United Core Essential (HMO)
- Carefirst BlueChoice HMO
- United Golden Rule
- United AARP Medicare Complete
- Kaiser Medicare Plus
- Anthem Plus BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- Innovation Health: Open Network Only Plus
- United Group Medicare Advantage Plans
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- CareFirst NASCO
- Innovation Health: Network Only Plus
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Anthem HMO - BCBS of VA HealthKeepers
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- Kaiser Signature
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- United MD IPA Preferred (POS)
- Cigna HMO & Network (HMO)
- Federal Employee Program (Std/Basic PPO/Blue Focus)
- D-SNP)
- Anthem (POS & Open Access POS) BCBS of VA HealthKeepers
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO) |
- Cigna Network Open Access
- Police and Fire Clinic
- United Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Innovation Health: Indemnity
- Kaiser Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- HumanaChoice PPO
- United Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) & OCI Direct (HMO)
- Innovation Health: POS
- Virginia Premier
- Cigna HMO Open Access
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Aetna HMO
- United Select Plus (POS)
- United Optimum Choice
- Aetna Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Innovation Health: Open POS II
- United Choice
- Carefirst EPO
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Carefirst BlueChoice Open Access
- First Health PPO
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
Education
Other Certification: American Speech Language Hearing Association, -
Allied Health Education: James Madison University (2004)
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Demirel, C. E. (2019). Neonatal Hearing Screening. In J. Ramasethu & S. Seo (Eds.), MacDonald's Atlas of Procedures in Neonatology (pp. 482-485). Philadelphia, PA: Wolters Kluwer Health.