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Dr. Istvan Takacs MD 
General Practice - Male
MUSC Hollings Cancer Center
86 Jonathan Lucas Street
Charleston, SC 29425
 (843) 792-7700
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DOCTOR SUMMARY
 Certifications
ACLS
ATLS
BLS
Foreign Equivalent Specialty Board
Foreign Equivalent Specialty Board-560224-9376
Foreign Licensing Board
Foreign Licensing Board-560224-9376
Foreign Licensing Board-X
IA
IA-33918
Not Board Certified
SC
SC-0T6908
SC-2022474
SC-22474
SC-99L125
SC-BT7324318
TN
TN-38334
 Degrees
Medical Doctor - MD
 Spoken Languages
English
Hungarian
 Years of Experience
N/A
 Payment Options
American Express
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Check
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Visa
 Insurances Accepted
Absolute Total Care (NEIC)
Absolute Total Care Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan 
Aetna (PPO)
AllWell by Absolute Total Care
Ambetter from Absolute Total Care (Marketplace) 
BCBS Blue Essentials (Marketplace)
Blue Choice Blue Option (Exchange Plan)
Blue Choice Medicaid
Blue Choice MyChoice (Available as individual commercial product)
Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Choice HealthCare (Group Health Plan)
Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal (FEP)
Blue Cross Blue Shield Planned Administrators
Blue Cross Blue Shield Preferred Blue (PPC)
Blue Cross Blue Shield State Health Plan for South Carolina
Cigna
Clover Health 
Coventry
Employers Health Network/SC Business Coalition on Health
First Choice VIP Care Plus Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan
First Choice/Select Health (NEIC)
First Health
Great West Healthcare (Part of Cigna now)
Humana ChoiceCare PPO (Group Health Plan) 
Managed Choice
Medcost
Molina Healthcare 
Molina Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan
Open Choice and Exclusive Choice)
Tricare
United HealthCare
WellCare
 Message
Istvan Takacs, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Functional and Stereotactic Surgery Program, and Director of the Gamma Knife Center at MUSC. He earned his M.D. from the University of Lund, Sweden, entered Neurosurgery residency training at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm, Sweden, followed by fellowships at the University of Toronto in Pediatric Neurosurgery and at the University of Arizona in Functional and Stereotactic Neurosurgery. Dr. Takacs' research focus has been on cortical and deep brain stimulation for psychiatric indications and movement disorders. He has also been involved in stem cell therapy research for Alzheimer's disease, stroke, and traumatic brain injury. His clinical focus is on surgical treatment of Parkinson's disease, essential tremor, dystonia, and pain and stereotactic radiosurgery for intracranial tumors, vascular malformations, trigeminal neuralgia and essential tremor.

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