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About Andrew Allegretti, MD, MSC
Andrew Allegretti, MD MSc is Director of Critical Care Nephrology in the Division of Nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Brown University and has a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine at MGH, followed by subspecialty training in Nephrology in the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital joint fellowship. He takes care of all patients with acute and chronic kidney disease. He has a clinical focus on kidney care in patients with liver disease.
Clinical Interests:
- Chronic kidney disease
- Cirrhosis
- Hepatorenal syndrome
- Hypertension
- Liver transplantation
- Portal hypertension
- Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts (TIPS)
Treats:
- Adult
Languages:
- Spanish
Locations
Mass General Renal Associates
165 Cambridge Street
Suite 302
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-5050
Medical Education
- MD, Warren Alpert Medical School of Medicine at Brown University
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
- Fellowship, Brigham and Women's Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Nephrology, 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
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid NY
- 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. Allegretti is a Principal Investigator in the MGH Kidney Research Center and the Chair/Founder of the HRS-HARMONY research collaborative. His research interest is in translating new therapies for hepatorenal syndrome and in finding new diagnostics for kidney injury. He has expertise in multicenter clinical trials, biomarker translation, and continuous renal replacement therapy.
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Dr. Allegretti explained my level of chronic kidney disease and the path forward to control it for the best outcome.
The Dr is excellent
This doctor and all doctors that I have appointments with at the Mass General are the very best as I'm as as far as I'm concerned every single one of them thank you.
Very fortunate to have Dr Allegretti as my nephrologist. He's awesome.
Very informative and helpful. Always gives me productive advice.
This provider is absolutely the best. I'm so happy to have him for my care
Very happy with my doctor
Best place to go and best doctors.
This was a follow up appointment after a hospital stay where I was being followed by this care provider. Everything was explained to me in a way that I could understand, and Dr. ANDREW ALLEGRETTI is a very thorough and pleasant doctor to interact with.
Woman at front never acknowledged my presence when I tried to check it. She finally mumbled something from behind her computer screen but never made eye contact during the interaction. She remained hidden behind computer screen. She was not there when I tried to check out and after waiting a few minutes, I left.