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Amey Rajan Savardekar, MD

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Neurosurgery Center
945 Margaret Place
Suite 100
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101
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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy
Shreveport, Louisiana 71103
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Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Neurosurgery

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Neurosurgery Center
945 Margaret Place
Suite 100
Shreveport, Louisiana 71101
Get Directions
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy
Shreveport, Louisiana 71103
Get Directions

General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Neurosurgery
Amey Savardekar, MD, is a Neurosurgeon at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at LSU Health Shreveport, specializing in endovascular, open cerebrovascular, and skull base neurosurgery. He completed his neurosurgical residency at LSU Shreveport along with a fellowship in Endovascular Neurosurgery under the mentorship of Dr. Hugo Cuellar. Along with his busy clinical practice, he is actively involved in clinical research, and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Radiology. Dr. Savardekar has conducted extensive clinical research in cerebrovascular disorders and skull base tumors, publishing more than 110 peer-reviewed journal articles. He also currently serves as the Section Editor for the vascular, endovascular, and cranial base sections for the esteemed neurosurgical journal, World Neurosurgery. Dr. Savardekar’s current research interests focus on optimizing patient outcomes by preserving neurological function and quality of life for patients with cerebrovascular diseases such as acute ischemic stroke with large vessel occlusion, intra-parenchymal hematoma, cerebral aneurysms, carotid stenosis, Moyamoya disease, and intracranial atherosclerotic disease.

Accepted Payors at Our Facilities

  • Aetna Better Health (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Aetna Health Inc. PPO/POS
  • Aetna Health Inc. - Medicare Advantage
  • AmeriHealth Caritas Louisiana (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana- HMO/PPO/OGB & Blue Connect product(s) & Medicare Advantage product(s), Blue High Performance Network
  • Cigna Behavioral Health
  • Cigna HealthCare
  • Cigna-HealthSpring - Medicare Advantage product(s)
  • Coventry Healthcare of Louisiana
  • Dignity Care Health Plan - Medicare Advantage
  • First Health Network PPO
  • Gilsbar 360
  • Healthy Blue (formerly Amerigroup Louisiana Inc.) (Healthy Louisiana) and Healthy Blue Dual Advantage (HMO-D-SNP)
  • Humana Behavioral Health
  • Humana - Commercial, Medicare Advantage
  • Humana Military - Tricare
  • Louisiana Healthcare Connections (Healthy Louisiana)
  • Louisiana Workers' Compensation Corporation(LWCC)
  • Medicaid/Medicare
  • Multiplan/PHCS/American LifeCare
  • Optum VA CCN
  • Peoples Health Network - Medicare Advantage
  • Stratose - PPO
  • United Behavioral Health (Optum) - United Commercial, Medicare Advantage and Community Plan (Healthy Louisiana)
  • United Healthcare - Commercial
  • United Healthcare Community Plan (Healthy Louisiana)
  • USA Managed Care Network
  • Vantage Health Plan - Commercial, Medicare Advantage
  • Verity Health Network - LSU First Choice
  • Zelis (formerly PPOPlus)