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Telephone Numbers:
(859) 278-4960 Appointments
(859) 278-4960 Telephone Consult
(859) 277-9436 Your Account
Office Locations
Fayette Surgical Associates
Saint Joseph Office Park
Suite C-100
1401 Harrodsburg Road
Lexington, Kentucky 40504
Telephone
Consultation
If you have any questions about your
condition, call
(859) 278-4960 Monday through Friday between 9:00 A.M. and
5:00 P.M. Frequently our nurses can help you. But one of the doctors is
always on duty and will be thoroughly familiar with your case. If you have a
question about your account, call (859) 277-9436, Monday through Friday
between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P .M. and our business office will be happy to
answer your questions.
Payment Policies:
Office Visits - Our fee for an
office visit is due at the time of your visit. To make this as convenient as
possible, we will accept cash, check, Visa or Master Card. To make it easy
for you to take care of getting reimbursement from your health care plan,
we'll provide you with the proper documentation.
Surgery Fees - You should know
that our surgical fee includes six weeks of the usual post-operative care
and follow-up visits. We will be happy to discuss your particular case ahead
of time. You are ultimately" responsible for covering the surgical fee. For
patients without insurance, or in cases where our fees are not covered by
your policy, our business office can make arrangements for payments.
Insurance Claims - Because there
are now so many insurance companies with differing rules and coverage
requirements, we must ask that each patient be responsible for knowing the
particular requirements of his or her policy. We must depend upon you to
advise us about such details. Our office policy brochures will give you
detailed information about insurance filing, e.g., Blue Shield, Medicare,
Medicaid, Medicare Medicaid combinations and Workman's Compensation.
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Office Appointments
- (859)278‑4960
Office appointments may be made by calling the
number above Monday through Friday, between 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. One
of the doctors is available every day of the week, so we can generally
schedule an appointment for you within a day or two…or right away, in an
emergency situation.
ABOUT OUR CARE
Our special areas of medicine are "general and
vascular surgery." We treat conditions of the vascular system (your blood
vessels), as well as perform general surgical procedures (gallbladder,
hernias and certain types of cancer, etc.). Your doctor has referred you to
us because he knows that we are specialists in the type of care you require.
Our treatment may take only an office visit or two. We'll frequently review
your case among the six doctors in our practice. We may even request the
opinion of other specialists. Then we'll present a treatment plan for your
approval. If we recommend an operation, it will only be after due
consideration of our examination, the input of your doctor and your opinion.
Other situations may result in a treatment plan that simply requires us to
"observe" your condition through periodic examinations and tests over a
number of months or years. Our computerized records system helps us schedule
patients for such visits and tests. Again, we'll keep you informed along the
way, and forward results to your regular physician.
ABOUT OUR DOCTORS
The following biographies tell you about our
medical training. Each of our doctors are certified by the American Board of
Surgery and have received special vascular surgical training. They attend
numerous continuing medical education courses each year to keep up with the
latest medical findings and newest surgical techniques.
GENERAL
AND VASCULAR SURGERY
(Click on name)
Colby P. Atkins, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Thomas H. Greenlee, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Wm. Dennis Newton, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Edwin J. Nighbert, M.D., F.A.C.S.
John D. Stewart, II, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Joshua P. Steiner, M.D., F.A.C.S.
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Edwin J. Nighbert, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Nighbert is a native of
Williamsburg, Kentucky. He received his undergraduate and medical school
training at the University of Kentucky and postgraduate surgical training at
Vanderbilt University and the University of Kentucky Medical Center. In the
military, he was co-director of the Vascular Surgery Services at Martin Army
Hospital, Ft. Benning, Georgia. He joined the practice of Surgical
Associates of Lexington in 1973.
Dr. Nighbert is quite active
in the medical community. He is the former president of the Fayette County
Medical Society, is a member of Alpha-Omega-Alpha Honorary, the Southern
Association for Vascular Surgery, as well as numerous other medical
association affiliations. He is co-founder and Medical Director of
HEALTHSOUTH Lexington Surgery Center.
Dr. Nighbert performs
minimally invasive surgery with emphasis on ANTI-REFLUX procedures for
treatment of GERD (GastroEsophogeal Reflux Disease). You will find
more information on this at Ethicon's
site.
Dr. Nighbert runs a Bariatric
Surgery Program along with Dr. Joshua Steiner and more information on that
program is available at
http://sjhlex.org/bypass.
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John D. Stewart, II, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Stewart is a native of
Frankfort, Kentucky. He received his B.A. with honors at the University of
Virginia in 1974 and his medical degree with honors at the University of
Kentucky College of Medicine in 1978. His General Surgery training was in
Houston at the University of Texas Medical School from 1978 to 1983. He
received the George Waldron Chief Surgical Resident Award in June, 1983. He
served a Vascular Fellowship at Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, New
Orleans from 1983 to 1984. He was certified by the American Board of Surgery
in General Surgery in 1984 and Peripheral Vascular Surgery in 1989. He is a
Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the
Kentucky and Fayette County Medical Societies. He is married to Dr.
Magdalene Karon, a Lexington Obstetrician & Gynecologist, and has two
children. His father, Dr. John P Stewart, is the director of the Stewart
Home School for the mentally handicapped in Frankfort.
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Thomas H. Greenlee, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Greenlee was born in
Louisville, Kentucky and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and Maysville, Kentucky.
He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky, receiving a B.S. with high
distinction in 1976. He graduated from the University of Kentucky College of
Medicine with honors in 1979, and received his general surgery training
there from July, 1979, through June, 1984. After one year on the surgical
staff at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Greenlee served a Peripheral
Vascular Fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas
from July, 1985, through June, 1986. He received certification by the
American Board of Surgery in General Surgery in 1985 and in Peripheral
Vascular Surgery in 1989.
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Wm. Dennis Newton, M.D.,
F.A.C.S.
Dr. Newton was born in
Louisville, Kentucky. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with honors
in 1975 at Bellarmine College and his M.D. degree with honors in 1979 at
the University of Louisville School of Medicine. His General Surgery
training was received in San Antonio, Texas at Wilford Hall USAF Medical
Center from 1979 to 1984. A Fellowship in Peripheral Vascular Surgery was
completed at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in
1985. He was Chief of General and Vascular Surgery at the USAF Medical
Center Kessler Biloxi, Mississippi from 1985 to 1990. He was certified by
the American Board of Surgery in 1985 and was awarded the certificate of
added qualifications in General Vascular Surgery in 1989. He is a fellow of
the American College of Surgeons, a member of the Southeastern Surgical
Congress, Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society and numerous other medical
associations.
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Colby P. Atkins, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Atkins was born in
Norwalk, Connecticut and raised in Newark, Delaware. He was graduated with
honors from Texas A&M University in 1981, receiving a Bachelor of Science
degree. After receiving his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine
in 1984, he entered general surgery training at the University of Alabama at
Birmingham, completing that training in 1990. He served Peripheral Vascular
Surgery Fellowships at Baptist Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee and
Georgia Baptist Medical Center in Atlanta. He was certified in General
Surgery by the American Board of Surgery in 1992 and was awarded the
certificate of added qualifications in General Vascular Surgery in 1997. He
is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the Southeastern Surgical
Congress, and several other medical societies. His wife, Dr. Lori Atkins, is
a radiologist with a special interest in women's imaging. They have three
children.
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Joshua P. Steiner, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Dr. Steiner was born in Los
Angeles, California. He graduated from the University of California, at Los
Angeles in 1991. After receiving his medical degree from Hahnemann
University in Philadelphia, he completed his surgical residency at the
University of Kentucky in 2001. He then returned to Los Angeles and
completed an advanced Lapaorscopic Surgery Fellowship at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center with an emphasis on bariatric and solid organ surgery. He has
a special interest in minimally invasive laparoscopic surgery. He was
certified by the American Board of Surgery in June of 2002, and he is an
instructor for the Society of American Gastrointestional Endoscopic Surgeons
and an active member of numerous other medical societies. His wife, Whitney,
is a native of Lexington, and they have two sons, Nathaniel and Maxwell.
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