Provider Overview
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Accepting New Patients
No
Specialty
Family Medicine
Languages Spoken
English
Provider Background
Internships
Grant Medical Center
Residency
Grant Medical Center
Titles, Recognitions, Honors, & Awards
- Honors in Endocrinology, Outpatient Surgery, Outpatient Pediatrics, Cardiology and Neurology
- Board of Directors - Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians
Associations & Organizations
- American Medical Association
- Ohio Academy of Family Practice
- American Academy of Family Practice
- Ohio State Medical Association
Medical School
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Board Certification
American Board of Family Medicine
Insurances Accepted
- Aetna
- Aetna Better Health aka Aetna MyCare
- Aetna Medicare (COPC Senior Health Connect Participant)
- Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Buckeye AmBetter
- Caresource Marketplace
- Cigna
- First Health
- HealthSmart
- Humana Commercial
- Humana Medicare (COPC Senior Health Connect Participant)
- Medical Mutual of Ohio (MMO)
- Medical Mutual OhioHealth HMO
- Medicare
- MediGold (COPC Senior Health Connect Participant)
- Meritain
- Molina Medicaid - Established Patients Only
- Mt.Carmel Health Partners Trinity Health Plan
- Multiplan
- Ohio Health Choice (OHCP)
- OhioHealthy
- OSCAR Buckeye Health
- OSU Health Plans
- PHCS
- PPO Connect
- Railroad Medicare
- Tricare Standard
- Trinity Health Plan - Aetna Administered
- UnitedHealthcare
Patient resources

Olivia C. Hower, MD
COPC Polaris
Female
Family Medicine
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
American Board of Family Medicine
English
No
Grant Medical Center
Grant Medical Center
- Honors in Endocrinology, Outpatient Surgery, Outpatient Pediatrics, Cardiology and Neurology
- Board of Directors - Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians
- American Medical Association
- Ohio Academy of Family Practice
- American Academy of Family Practice
- Ohio State Medical Association