About Lawrence Borges, MD
Departments, Centers, & Programs:
Clinical Interests:
- Chiari malformation
- Spinal Cord Tumors
- Spine Surgery: disc excision, laminectomy, fusions
- Spine tumors
Treats:
- Adult
Locations
Mass General Neurosurgery
55 Fruit St.
Wang Ambulatory Care Center
Suite 745
Boston, MA 02114
Phone: 617-726-6156
Fax: 617-724-7407
Medical Education
- MD, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- Residency, Massachusetts General Hospital
American Board Certifications
- Neurological Surgery, American Board of Neurological Surgery
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 CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- 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.
I found Dr. Borges to be incredibly professional, kind, and informative. He took time to answer all of my questions with great detail. I felt that he was incredibly knowledgeable and thorough in my exam and providing information for next steps. He was also an incredibly kind man, and I am so glad he's part of my medical team.
Dr Borges is fantastic. He was so patient with my questions. He even had 2 spines so I could see what was wrong and what he would do. He explained the recovery. When I asked for a guarantee he didn't give me one but told me about worst and best case outcomes. He also showed the 2 MRI and reassure me
Dr Borges is the ultimate caring physician - thoughtful, respectful and extremely competent.
Very informative and knowledgeable.
Thank you, Dr. Borges.
Dr. Borges is excellent. His approach is calm, methodical, empathetic, patient, and informative and clear. He is the best physician I have ever seen.
EXCELLENT! Very patient, listened, and answered all my questions.
Dr. Borges was absolutely wonderful. He took into consideration all my diagnoses and how they would affect my treatment. He also picked up on some issues that a different neurologist that I had been to see did not pick up on. One of them being I have a curved back, both in the thoracic. I have scoliosis both in the thoracic and lumbar area. That ... Read More
Very good, extremely professional and allowed sufficient time with me.
Dr. Borges was very friendly, caring, and he actually gave me confidence. He gave me very best, very best care.