About Steve Atlas, MD, MPH
Dr. Atlas received his MD degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, and a master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and completed a fellowship in general medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Atlas is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a Physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at MGH where he is a practicing primary care physician. He is the Director of the primary care practice-based research and quality network and the Medical Director implementing population health management within primary care practices at MGH. He is a medical editor for Healthwise, a non-profit company with a mission to help people make better health decisions, and with UpToDate, a comprehensive evidence-based electronic clinical information resource for clinicians.
Clinical Interests:
- Adult primary care medicine
- AIDS and HIV infection
- Diabetes management
- General internal medicine
- Heart disease
- Hypertension management
- Low back pain
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Internal Medicine Associates
55 Fruit St.
Wang Ambulatory Care Center
6th Floor
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-724-6200
Medical Education
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Internal Medicine, American Board of Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurance Plans
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Maine Community Health Options
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- MassHealth ACO
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Medicare ACO
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense
- WellSense NH
Note: This provider may accept more insurance plans than shown; please call the practice to find out if your plan is accepted.
Research
Dr. Atlas has received research support from the National Institutes of Health and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He is a health services researcher with content expertise in spine disorders, cancer prevention, chronic disease management and population health. His research addresses how health information technology can foster population-based, patient-centered cancer prevention and chronic disease services. He has also developed shared decision making programs for patients with spine conditions in his role as medical editor for the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, now part of Healthwise
I know I'm in great hands at MGH, no matter the doctor that I see.
For more than 30 years, been enjoying Dr. Atlas professionalism.
Dr. Atlas is an excellent doctor and I'm very glad to have him as my primary care.
Excellent, professional care!
If there were an adjective in the English language beyond extremely professional, I would use it for Dr.Atlas. In my [redacted] years on this earth I have been treated and cared for by many doctors for a multitude of routine and emergency medical needs and I therefore feel qualified to say there are only a few who rate even close to Dr. Atlas. I ... Read More
Dr Atlas has been my primary care physician for 30+ years and I feel very lucky to have him as my doctor.
I consider myself very fortunate to have a doctor as knowledgeable and caring as doctor Atlas.
Dr. Atlas is an awesome Doctor and takes time to explain everything to me. I really appreciate that.
Dr. Steven is the best Primary Care Provider anybody would wish to have. He has been my PCP since 1997 and he is very competent, very caring and very supportive. He deserves a special award for excellence in clinical practice.
I think Dr. Atlas is absolutely wonderful. I travel from out of state to see him for my primary care and travel to the state for virtual care visits. I'm very lucky to have him and he's a consummate professional.