Laura B. Xanders, FNPBC| Neurology | MedStar Health
About me
Laura Xanders, FNP-BC, is a ANCC-certified Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in headache treatment. She sees patients in the Chevy Chase, MD, location.
Laura embraces the concept of ‘cura personalis,’ treating the whole patient. She incorporates lifestyle modifications, medications, procedures, alternative therapies, and interdisciplinary referrals when developing a personalized plan with her patients. As a former ER nurse at MedStar Georgetown, she also focuses on acute and urgent headache management options in clinic, at times utilizing the infusion suite at Chevy Chase.
Clinical areas of focus
- Auriculotemporal Nerve Block For Headache
- Chronic Headache Treatment
- Migraine
- Multiple Sclerosis
Conditions and procedures
Conditions I treat
- Abnormal Movements
- Acute Disseminated Demyelination
- Alzheimer's Disease
- Benign Essential Tremor
- Brain Disorders
- Brain Tumor
- Cerebrovascular Diseases
- Cervical Dystonia
- Cervicogenic Headache
- Cognitive Function Disorders
- Convulsions
- Dementia
- Dystonia
- Epilepsy And Seizures
- Glossopharyngeal Neuralgia
- Head Injury
- Headache
- Hydrocephalus
- Migraine
- Migraine With Aura
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Myopathies
- Nervous And Musculoskeletal Symptoms
- Neuropathic Pain
- Occipital Neuralgia
- Parkinson's Disease
- Seizure Disorders
- Sensory Neuropathy
- Status Migrainosus
- Transient Cerebral Ischemic Attacks
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
- Vestibular Neuritis
Procedures I perform
- Auriculotemporal Nerve Block For Headache
- Botox Injection For Migraines
- Cervicogenic Dizziness Treatment
- Chronic Headache Treatment
- Deep Brain Stimulation
- Demyelinating Optic Neuropathy Treatment
- Electromyography
- Headache Prevention
- Headache Relief
- Huntington's Disease Management
- Median Nerve Conduction Studies
- Migraine Prevention
- Nerve Block
- Seizure Treatment
- Stroke Care
- Tension Headache Treatment
Practice locations
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5454 Wisconsin Ave
Ste 1100
Chevy Chase, MD, 20815
Insurance
MedStar Health accepts most major health insurance plans. If you are uncertain as to whether your individual health insurance plan is accepted at MedStar Health, please call your insurance company.
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List of insurance plans we accept
- Aetna Elect Choice/ EPO (Aetna Health Fund)
- IH-Open POS II
- OA Plus
- OCI Direct (HMO)
- Sentara Health
- Aetna Traditional Choice (PPO)
- CareFirst Blue Card Program
- CIGNA PPO
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage prescription drug benefit (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage DSNP District of Columbia
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Dual Adv
- CareFirst EPO
- Medicare Advantage - Advantra Value (PPO)
- United Healthcare Options (PPO)
- IH-Open POS Plus
- Lasso Healthcare - Medicare Medical Savings Account
- Optimum Choice & Optimum Choice Preferred (POS) Cardiac Global
- Cigna True Choice Medicare (PPO)
- Alterwood Advanatge HMO & DSNP Plans
- Aetna Student Health Insurance
- Private Fee-for-Service Plans (PFFS)
- Amerigroup DC Alliance
- UnitedHealthcare and AARP Medicare Complete Plans
- BlueChoice Open Access
- Great-West Healthcare POS/CIGNA
- United Healthcare Navigate Cardiac Global
- Select HMO/HealthFund/Health Network
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthcare Alliance
- TRICARE for Life East
- Humana Gold Plus HMO
- CareFirst Blue Preferred PPO
- United Healthcare Select HMO-EPO/NPP Cardiac Global
- CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Advantage Core/Enhanced
- CareFirst (NCA) Indemnity
- United HealthCare Community Plan - Maryland Health Choice Program
- Aetna Open Choice (PPO)
- Coventry Health Care of Virginia
- CareFirst FEP Blue Focus
- Geisinger Medicare Advantage
- AMERIVANTAGE/Amerigroup Community Care
- TRICARE East Prime
- Jai Medical Systems - Maryland Health Choice
- Maryland Physicians Care MCO
- BCBS Out-of-State Medicare Plans (Blue Advantage)
- IH-EPO Plus
- Advantra Platinum (PPO)
- CIGNA HMO & Network (HMO)
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Plus
- Kaiser Permaenete Signature - Added Choice Cardiac Global
- Choice POS II
- Choice Care Network/HUMANA (PPO)
- Aetna Classic 3500
- HumanaChoice Honor's plan PPO
- IH-Open Network Only Plus
- UHC Passport
- Cigna True Choice Plus Medicare (PPO)
- UnitedHealthcare Individual Exchange Plans
- MD IPA (HMO) & MD IPA Preferred Cardiac Global
- Aetna Advantage 6350
- Health Services for Children with Special Needs
- NYC Medicare Advantage Plus
- Kaiser Permanente Select Cardiac Global
- Medicare FFS
- CareFirst Group Medicare Advantage
- Kaiser Permanente Signature - Added Choice
- Kaiser Maryland Medicaid MCO
- CareFirst Administrators
- IH-PPO
- Options PPO Cardiac Global
- Amerigroup DC Healthy Families
- Aetna HMO-Open Access/Select OA/HealthFund/Health Network Option OA
- IH-Open HMO Option
- Priority Partners - Maryland Health Choice
- Kaiser Permanente Medicare Advantage Signature and Select
- M.D. IPA Preferred (POS)
- IH-HMO
- CIGNA POS/Network POS
- DC/MD SHOP QHP Small Business Plans
- United Healthcare Community Plan - VA Medicaid MCO
- United Healthcare Choice Plus Cardiac Global
- Choice Fund PPO
- Kaiser Permanente HMO Plus and DHMO Plus Member
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Open Access
- Aetna Better Health of MD
- CIGNA HMO Open Access
- HUMANA/Choice Care Medicare Plans (Choice, Gold Choice)
- Aetna Basic
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthcare Alliance
- WellPoint Maryland - Maryland Health Choice
- BCBS of Michigan (BCN Advantage,Security Blue, Freedom, Medicare PLUS Blue Group PPO)
- Coventry Health Care National Network PPO
- Choice POS II Open Access
- Humana Medicare Advantage - PPO
- Navigate
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PLUS PPO
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Standard
- Anthem Federal Employee Program Basic
- CIGNA Indemnity
- HighMark
- Aetna Advantage 6350PD
- IH-Network Only Plus
- Aetna Managed Choice (POS)
- AmeriHealth Caritas DC Healthy Families
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice 3-tier POS
- UnitedHealthcare Medicare Adv. Special Needs Plans
- Core Essential (HMO)
- CareFirst Maryland Point of Service Plan
- Healthy Blue (HMO, POS)
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO) Cardiac Global
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers Plus
- CIGNA EPO
- United Healthcare Select HMO - EPO/NPP
- Aetna Premier 200PD
- Kaiser Permanente Signature
- TriWest Healthcare Alliance
- IH-Open HMO
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (HMO)
- United Healthcare Choice Cardiac Global
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD HMO
- First Health PPO
- Aetna Managed Choice Open Access (POS)
- United Healthcare Choice
- Aetna HMO
- CareFirst Federal Employee Program (Std. & Basic PPO)
- Erickson Advantage Plans
- Anthem BCBS of VA HealthKeepers (POS & POS OA)
- MultiPlan, Inc
- United Healthcare Select Plus (POS)
- Aetna Signature Administrator PPO/TPA
- Optimum Choice Preferred (POS)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO Plans
- IH-Indemnity
- Choice POS
- Coventry of Delaware HMO/PPO
- Uniformed Services Family Health Plan
- Kaiser Permanente Select
- Veterans Affairs Community Care Network
- IH-Open EPO Plus
- Humana Medicare Advantage - HMO Open Access
- Tricare Reserve Select
- Aetna Advantage 5750
- Aetna Elect Choice/ Open Access (POS)
- IH-POS Plus
- Police and Fire Clinic
- Aetna Quality Point of Service (POS)
- HumanaChoice PPO
- Aetna Medicare Advantage PFFS Plan
- Medicare Direct
- CareFirst NASCO
- CIGNA SureFit (HMO)
- Cigna Preferred Medicare (HMO)
- United Healthcare Choice Plus
- Magellan Complete Care of VA - VA Medicaid MCO
- CIGNA PPO Plus
- CareFirst Dual Prime HMO-SNP
- CareFirst Community Health Plan of MD
- Kaiser Permanente Select - Added Choice
- Anthem BCBS of VA Key Care POS/PPO/Indemnity
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue Plus
- Beech Street PPO
- CareFirst Blue Choice Opt Out Plus Open Access (POS)
- Network OA
- Cigna Alliance Medicare (HMO)
- Optima Family Care MCO - VA Medicaid MCO
- First Health PPO
- Aetna Classic 5000
- United Student Resources
- UHC Group Medicare Advantage Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
- CIGNA Connect EPO
- Fee-for-Service (FFS) District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia Medicaid
- Aetna Better Health of VA
- CareFirst BlueChoice HMO
- CareFirst Maryland Indemnity or PPO
- Private Health Care Systems (PPO)
- Aetna VA Exchange
- Johns Hopkins Advantage MD PPO
- MedStar Family Choice DC Healthy Families
- TRICARE East Select
- Aetna Classic 5000PD
- Mamsi Life & Health (Indem./PPO)
- MedStar Family Choice - Maryland Health Choice
- Anthem BCBS Medi Blue SNP
- United Medicare Private Fee-for-Service (PFFS) plans
- Optimum Choice
- M.D. IPA (HMO)
- CareFirst MedStar PPO
- Employee Health Plan
- HealthyBlue PPO
- CareFirst MedStar Select PPO
- POS OA
- IH-POS
- Cigna TotalCare (HMO D-SNP)
- Kaiser Permanente Flexible Choice POS Cardiac Global
- Cigna Achieve Medicare (HMO C-SNP)
- Aetna Worker's Compensation Network
- Blue Choice Advantage
Education
Board Certification: American Nurses Credentialing Center, American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Graduate: Georgetown University School of Nursing (2012)
Hospital affiliations
News and publications
Diagnose and adios: practical tips for the ongoing evaluation and care of TAC patients taking indomethacin. Current Pain and Headache Reports. 2015.