About Karin Andersson, MD
Dr. Andersson is a graduate of Yale Medical School (New Haven, CT). She completed Internal Medicine residency training at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and both Gastroenterology and Advanced Hepatology/Transplant Hepatology fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital. She has an MPH in International Health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.
Dr. Andersson has clinical expertise in liver disease (Hepatology). She sees patients with all types of liver disease including viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver disease, biliary diseases, benign liver lesions, liver disease in pregnancy, abnormal liver function tests, cirrhosis, fatty liver disease, and alcoholic liver disease. She has a particular interest in hepatitis B infection. She evaluates and cares for individuals who require liver transplantation. She also performs upper endoscopies, as well as diagnostic and screening colonoscopy.
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Abnormal Liver Function Tests
- Autoimmune hepatitis, Autoimmune liver disease
- Cirrhosis
- EGD and colonoscopy
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Liver disease
- Primary Biliary Cholangitis
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Boston: Massachusetts General Hospital
Mass General Gastroenterology
55 Fruit St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-2426
Medical Education
- MD, Yale University School of Medicine
- Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital
- Fellowship, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Gastroenterology, American Board of Internal Medicine
- Transplant Hepatology, 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
- 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.