Asim Farid, MD
February 2025
Specialties
Insurance Accepted
- Aetna Healthcare
- Aetna Medicare Advantage Plan
- Highmark BCBS
- Corvel (formerly CareIQ)
- Cigna Healthcare
- ElderONE
- Emblem Health
- The Empire Plan (United HealthCare)
- Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS)
- Fidelis Care
- Fidelis Care Medicare Plans
- First Niagara Business Works (Key Insurance)
- Independent Health CommercialMedicare
- Lifetime Benefits (RMSCO)
- Magnacare
- Martin 's Point (US Family Health Plan)
- Medicare
- MetraComp
- Multi Plan
- MVP Healthcare
- NY Medicaid
- OneCall Medical
- Pomco
- TriCare
- United Healthcare
- Univera Healthcare
- Beacon Health (Value Options) Behavioral Health
- Veterans Administration (VA)
- Wellcare of NY Today 's Option
- Molina Healthcare Plans
- Cigna Dental
- DeCare Dental
- DentaQuest
- Excellus BlueCross BlueShield (BCBS) Dental
- FedMed Dental
- Government Employees Health Association (GEHA) Dental
- Guardian Dental
- Health Economics Group Dental
- HealthPlex
- Liberty Dental
- MetLife Dental
- United HealthCare Dental
About The Provider
Dr. Asim Farid is a native of Pakistan, where he went to medical school. After graduation in 1984 he went to England for surgical training, and obtained a Fellowship in General Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Scotland.
He then moved to the USA in 1991, where he underwent Residency training at the Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, PA. After completing this training in 1996, he moved to Kentucky where he was a General Surgeon and Chief of Surgery at Owen County Memorial Hospital. In 2000 he joined Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit Michigan, for a 1 year Fellowship in Colon and Rectal Surgery. In September 2001 he moved to Rochester where he is now settled.
He is skilled at performing numerous surgical procedures in colon and rectal surgery. He has a particular interest in laparoscopic procedures, surgery for cancer of the colon and rectum and robotic surgery. He was one of the first surgeons in the area who performed the Stapled hemorrhoidopexy procedure, a specialized procedure for certain types of symptomatic hemorrhoids.
Dr. Farid certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons.
- English
- Hindi/Urdu
- Rochester General Hospital
- Surgery - Surgery, American Board of Surgery, 1997
- Dow Medical College, 1984
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