Colorado Springs Surgical Associates

What types of surgery do the physicians of Colorado Springs Surgical Associates perform?

Our practice encompasses the full spectrum of general and vascular surgery. Our physicians have completed extensive training in order to provide our patients with the most comprehensive, up-to-date surgical care as possible.

From a GI perspective, we perform such surgeries as:

• Laparoscopic gallbladder removal (cholecystectomy)
• Laparoscopic and open colon resection (colectomy), for tumors, diverticular disease, and other conditions
• Stomach surgeries, such as gastrectomy and antireflux surgery (fundoplication for GERD)
• Appendectomy
• Laparoscopic and open gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity


Bariatric/Obesity Surgery for Weight Loss
• Lap-band procedure and Laparoscopic Roux-in-Y Gastric Bypass
  
  Vascular surgery includes diverse procedures such as:
  • Carotid endarterectomy
  • Minimally invasive and open surgeries to repair aortic aneurysms
  • Minimally invasive and open surgeries to restore adequate blood flow to the extremities or GI tract
  • Minimally invasive procedures to treat varicose veins
  • Procedures to provide vascular access for treatments such as chemotherapy
  
  
  Other surgeries that are commonly performed in our practice include:
  • Breast surgery, such as breast conservation surgery for breast cancer as well as breast biopsies
  • Repair of inguinal and other abdominal hernias
  • Thyroid and parathyroid surgery
  • Surgery for tumors of the liver and pancreas, along with surgeries for malignancies of other parts of the GI tract
  • Surgical treatment of melanoma, including sentinel node biopsy
  
  
  Information regarding many of the procedures we perform can be found on the Patient Information portion of this web site.
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  What insurance products does CSSA participate with?

  While this list is not exhaustive, it represents the majority of plans with which we currently participate:

  • Aetna US Healthcare PPO/EPO/POS
  • Aetna NPP/Choice +/Open Access/HMO/QPOS
  • Cigna PPO/HMO/flex-commercial
  • Great West Healthcare HMO/POS/PPO
  • GEHA
  • Humana PPO/ChoiceCare/Indemnity
  • Kaiser Permanente (all products)
  • Medical Network
  • Mega Life & Accident/United Ins. Co.
  • MMA (Mountain Medical Associates) PPO
  • Multiplan PPO
  • PPO Next
  • PHCS (Private Healthcare Systems)
  • Rocky Mountain Health Plan (Medicare)
  • Secure Horizons (CS Direct only)
  • Sloans Lake PPO/PIP
  • Tricare Standard/Prime
  • United Healthcare (all products)
  • Medicare (participating providers)
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  What type of training have your surgeons been through?

  Each of our physicians have obviously completed a four year medical school degree, followed by surgical residency. The residency period is generally 5 to 6 years, depending upon the training program and research time spent by the surgeon in training. Several of our physicians have then had additional fellowship training in vascular surgery, critical care and trauma surgery, and laparoscopic surgery; these fellowships require an additional 1 to 2 years of training. All of our surgeons participate in ongoing postgraduate medical education programs as well.

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