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Charles James Fox, III, MD

Chairman, Professor

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 71103
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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy.
Shreveport, LA
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General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Anesthesiology

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Highway
Shreveport, LA 71103
Get Directions
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy.
Shreveport, LA
Get Directions

General Info

Gender

  • Male

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Anesthesiology
Dr. Fox received his Doctor of Medicine degree from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center – New Orleans in 1989. He completed his residency training in Anesthesiology at Yale University School of Medicine and subsequently completed a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1997.Dr. Fox came to Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport in March 2013 where he serves as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Anesthesiology, Vice Chancellor of Clinical Affairs and President/CEO for the Ochsner LSU Physician Group. He is an active Louisiana Representative in the American Society of Anesthesiologists House of Delegates and was the founder for the Perioperative Management Fellowship at the Tulane School of Medicine and the Tulane School of Public Health. He is a retired Major of the United States Army Medical Reserves. He has edited three anesthesiology textbooks and authored or coauthored over one hundred publications.

Medical School

Louisiana State University - MD

Internship

Alton Ochsner Foundation - Internal Medicine

Residency

Yale University - Anesthesiology

Fellowship

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia - Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology

Certifications

American Board of Anesthesiology - Anesthesiology

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)