Bethany Austin, MD
- Heart Failure and Transplantation Cardiology
- Cardiology
- Saint Luke's Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke's North Hospital
- Saint Luke's South Hospital
- Saint Luke's East Hospital
- Allen County Regional Hospital
- Anderson County Hospital
- Hedrick Medical Center
- Wright Memorial Hospital
- Saint Luke's Cushing Hospital
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Locations
Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants
Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants
Saint Luke's Ventricular Assist Device Clinic
Saint Luke's Heart Failure & Transplant Clinic
About Bethany Austin, MD
Bethany Austin, M.D. is a board-certified cardiologist with Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants and is on staff primarily at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. She subspecializes in Heart Failure, Cardiac Transplantation, and Mechanical Circulatory Support. She is a Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program, Medical Director of Heart Failure Quality, Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Disease for Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, as well as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine.
Dr. Austin was born in Vermont. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut, and her fellowship training in both Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. She is board certified in both Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Additionally she is board certified in Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography. She performs procedures including transesophageal echocardiograms, cardiac biopsies, and right heart catheterizations.
Dr. Austin is involved in multiple clinical research trials at Saint Luke's involving heart failure. Her clinical and research interests include heart failure, cardiac transplantation, echocardiography, and valvular heart disease. She believes successful treatment of cardiac disease requires open communication and collaboration between doctor and patient. She has been with Saint Luke's Cardiovascular Consultants since 2010.
Dr. Austin has been named a "Regional Top Doctor" and an “Exceptional Woman in Medicine” each year since 2019 by Castle Connolly Top Doctors.
Education & Credentials
Training & Education
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Fellowship
Cleveland Clinic
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Medical School
Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine
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Residency
Yale-New Haven Medical Center Program
Academic Titles
Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
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Aetna
- Aetna Choice POS II Local (excluding National General STM plan, I-35 Preferred Plan, and HCA, Advent Health, and NKC Hospital employee plans)
- Aetna Elect Choice
- Aetna HMO
- Aetna Managed Choice
- Aetna Medicare Assure (HMO)
- Aetna Medicare Core Value HMO
- Aetna Medicare Premier Preferred HMO
- Aetna Medicare Premier and Premier Plus HMO
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Aetna Select
- Aetna Signature Administrators (ASA)
- Aetna UAW Retiree Medical Benefits Trust (Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO)
- Aetna Workers Comp
Blue Cross
- BCBS of Kansas
- BCBS of Kansas Blue Choice Preferred Care Blue PPO
- BCBS of Kansas City Blue Select Plus (UCMO and City of KCMO)
- BCBS of Kansas City Federal PPO
- BCBS of Kansas City Freedom Network PPO
- BCBS of Kansas City Freedom Network Select PPO
- BCBS of Kansas City Preferred Care
- BCBS of Kansas City Preferred Care Blue
- BCBS of Kansas City Traditional
- BCBS of Kansas Federal
- BCBS of Kansas Traditional
- BCBS of Michigan Medicare Advantage PPO
Cigna
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna OAP
- Cigna PPO
- Great West Healthcare
Corvel
- Corvel
First Health Network
- First Health Network
Home State
- Home State Health Plan (Missouri Medicaid)
Humana
- Humana Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Gold Plus HMO SNP - Medicare Advantage
- Humana Medicare Advantage Team Care Gold HMO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Team Care Gold PPO
MHNet
- Healthy Blue MO Medicaid
- MH Net Behavioral Health
Medicare
- American Health Advantage-Missouri Medicare Advantage
- Devoted Health Medicare Advantage (Core and Giveback)
- Kansas Health Advantage/Kansas Superior Select, Inc (KSSI) Medicare Advantage
- Medicare
MultiPlan
- MultiPlan
Orscheln Industries
- HealthSCOPE Benefits (Orsheln Industries)
Other
- BeechStreet
- Century Health Solutions (PPO)
- CompResults/CompAlliance (WC) PPO
- Health Choice of Northwest Missouri (PPO)
- Integrated Health Plan PPO
- Medica Connect
- Medica Select
- OHA Networks (WC)
- OHARA Managed Care (WC)
- Occupational Health Management PPO (WC)
- Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
- ProviDRs Care Network PPO (formerly WPPA)
- Provider Partners Health Plan
- Sunflower State Health Plan Kansas Medicaid
Other Medicaid
- Healthy Blue KS Medicare Advantage DSNP
- Healthy Blue Kansas Medicaid
TriWest
- TriWest
United Healthcare
- UHC Medicare Erickson Advantage plans-KC
- United HealthCare Choice
- United HealthCare Choice Plus
- United HealthCare Community Plan (Missouri Medicaid)
- United HealthCare Navigate
- United HealthCare Select
- United HealthCare Select Plus
- United Healthcare - AARP Medicare Advantage Choice Plans
- United Healthcare - AARP Medicare Advantage Patriot
- United Healthcare - All Savers Insurance
- United Healthcare - Community Plan (Kansas Medicaid)
- United Healthcare - Core and Core Essential
- United Healthcare - Definity Health Reimbursement Account POS
- United Healthcare - Definity Health Savings Account POS
- United Healthcare - Golden Rule HMO (HMO & PPO)
- United Healthcare - Options PPO
- United Healthcare - United Health One
- United Healthcare Individual Exchange Benefit Plan (IEX) MO and KS Plans
- UnitedHealthcare - AARP Medicare Complete Choice
- UnitedHealthcare - AARP Medicare Complete HMO
- UnitedHealthcare - AARP Medicare Complete PPO
- UnitedHealthcare - Dual Complete SNP PPO (MO and KS)
- UnitedHealthcare - Group Medicare Advantage PPO
- UnitedHealthcare - Medicare Complete
- UnitedHealthcare - Medicare Gold SNP
- UnitedHealthcare - Medicare Silver SNP
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