William Henry Barth, MD
Not currently accepting new patients
Specialties
Affiliation
Mass General Brigham
Provider Locations
- Portsmouth, NH
- Boston, MA
- Danvers, MA
William H. Barth, Jr, MD, is the Vice Chair for Obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital and is the Charles & Robert Montraville Green Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School.
He is a former Chair of the Committee on Obstetric Practice for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and is an Oral Examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Obstetrics & Gynecology and Maternal-Fetal Medicine.
Before retiring as a Colonel in the United States Air Force in 2005 he served as Department Chair at Wilford Hall Medical Center, as Chief Consultant to the Surgeon General for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and as Commander of the 407th Expeditionary Medical Group in Iraq. He served as the Chief, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at MGH from 2005 to 2019.
His primary research interests are intra-partum obstetrics, cervical insufficiency and preterm birth, and placental vascular physiology.
Education & Training
- Fellowship: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, 1991
- Residency: Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, OB/GYN, 1989
- Medical Education: Baylor College of Medicine, 1985
Board Certifications
- Maternal and Fetal Medicine, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Languages Spoken
- Spanish
- English
Age Group Treated
- Adults
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Accepted Insurance
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- Wellpoint
- Medicare - NH
- Maine Community Health Options
- Fallon Health
- Aetna
- Railroad Medicare
- Blue Cross Blue Shield NH
- Medicaid RI
- United Health Care
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Indemnity
- Medicaid ME
- Prime Health Services
- Medicaid NH
- AmeriHealth Caritas New Hampshire
- TriCare
- Medicaid VT
- Coventry
- Multiplan
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Martin's Point
- Multiplan/PHCS
- WellSense
- Community Health Options
- Medicare ACO
- Cigna
- Ambetter
- Senior Whole Health
- WellSense NH
- Humana
- Medicare
- MassHealth
- Blue Cross Blue Shield - Federal
- Blue Cross Blue Shield ME
- Tufts Health Plan
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- WellCare
- NH Healthy Families