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Mary Buffington, MD

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy
Shreveport, Louisiana 71103
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General Info

Gender

  • Female

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Nephrology

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Academic Medical Center
1541 Kings Hwy
Shreveport, Louisiana 71103
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General Info

Gender

  • Female

Languages

  • English

Primary Specialty

Nephrology
Dr. Mary Buffington grew up in Monroe, Louisiana and received a bachelor’s degree in English and History from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. She then graduated from law school at Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and returned to Monroe, Louisiana. After deciding to pursue a career in medicine, she attended Northeast Louisiana University then received a Doctor of Medicine degree from LSU Health Shreveport in Shreveport, Louisiana. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Nephrology Fellowship at LSU Health Shreveport.Dr. Buffington is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Nephrology Section of the Internal Medicine Department. Educational activities include lectures in the Sophomore Medical Student Nephrology and Urology course, and Internal Medicine Residents didactic education curriculum, as well as Grand Rounds presentations for the Internal Medicine Department and the Nephrology Section. She is currently Chairman of the Nephrology Clinical Competency Committee and a member of the Nephrology Medical Education Committee. Past committee participation includes the Institutional Review Board Committee and Student Admissions Committee.

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)