- Chronic disease management
- Preventive health
- Wellness examination
Barbara Frances Westerhaus, MD
Internal Medicine
Accepting new patients
Sees patients age 18 and up
Penn Internal Medicine - J. Edwin Wood
Penn Medicine Provider
About me
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine (General Internal Medicine)
My education and training
- Medical School: Emory University
- Residency: University of Pennsylvania Health System
Spoken languages
English
English
Insurance accepted
Please contact the practice and/or the member services department of your insurance company for specific details before receiving services. Providers may participate in some, but not all, products offered by a health plan; providers may also accept plans at some practice locations but not others.
- Aetna Advantra Cares D-SNP
- Aetna Advantra Credit Value
- Aetna Advantra Eagle HMO
- Aetna Advantra Eagle POS
- Aetna Advantra Premier Plus PPO
- Aetna Advantra Value
- Aetna Advantra Value Plus
- Aetna APCN Plus (Multi-Tier)
- Aetna Better Health Kids (CHIP) - DH Only
- Aetna Flexible Five
- Aetna Freedom Core
- Aetna Gold
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Philly Prime
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO APCN
- Aetna Premier
- Aetna Premier Plus
- Aetna Savings Plus
- Aetna Signature Administrators
- Aetna Student Health Plan PPO
- Aetna Upfront Advantage
- First Health HMO
- First Health POS
- First Health PPO
- Meritain - Aramark (Other)
- Meritain - Aramark (Pennsylvania Premier Medical Plan)
- Cigna Healthcare EPO
- Cigna Healthcare HMO
- Cigna Healthcare POS
- Cigna Healthcare PPO
- Claim Watcher (Homestead/ INDECs) Open Access
- Clover Health Choice
- Clover Health Choice Value PPO
- Clover Health Classic HMO
- Clover Health Value
- Devoted Health Choice Giveback Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Choice Plus Pennsylvania (PPO)
- Devoted Health Core Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Devoted Health Dual Plus Pennsylvania (HMO D-SNP)
- Devoted Health Giveback Pennsylvania (HMO)
- Geisinger Health Plan - all Gold products
- Geisinger Health Plan All Access HMO
- Geisinger Health Plan All Access PPO
- Geisinger Health Plan Extra HMO
- Geisinger Health Plan GHP Family (PA HealthChoices)
- Geisinger Health Plan HMO
- Geisinger Health Plan POS
- Geisinger Health Plan PPO
Locations
Penn Medicine hospital privileges
- Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Qualifications and experience
- Internal Medicine, 2014
- American College of Physicians, National
Treatments and conditions
Research
Publications
Westerhaus B, Gosmanov AR, Umpierrez GE Diabetes Prevention: Can Insulin Secretagogues Do the Job? , Primary Care Diabetes, 5(2): 2011,73-80
Westerhaus B, Klein R Hyponatremia: Does the Diagnosis Matter? , Clinical vignette poster presentation presented at the annual meeting of the Georgia Chapter of the ACP, Atlanta, GA: 2010
Edelson, DP, Litzinger B, Arora V, Walsh D, Salem Kim, Diane S Lauderdale, Terry L Vanden Hoek, Lance B Becker, Benjamin S Abella Improving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Precess and Outcomes with Performance Debriefing. , Archives of Internal Medicine, 168(10): 2008,1063-69
Litzinger B, Guo R and Cunningham PN The role of superoxide dismutase 1 in endotoxin-induced acute renal failure. , Chicago Biological Investigator: 2006,39-42