Benjamin Potter
         
    
        
    
            Benjamin "Kyle" Potter, MD
                
                    Office (267) 217-2396
                
                    Fax (215) 349-5128
            
                
                    3400 Civic Center Boulevard
                        Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine
                
                
                    Philadelphia, PA 19104
                
            
        
            
     
 
        
        
            
                About 
Benjamin Potter
                Dr. Potter has developed numerous cutting-edge techniques and programs to improve care and quality of life for injured service members and other patients worldwide. His research efforts include trauma-related amputation techniques to improve mobility and decrease pain and predictive modeling of musculoskeletal trauma and oncologic outcomes.
Prior to joining Penn Medicine, Dr. Potter served as the Norman M. Rich Professor and Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Uniformed Services University – Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He served as Director of the Department of Defense Limb Optimization and Osseointegration Program at the Uniformed Services University and Chief Orthopaedic Surgeon for the Amputee Program at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. He was also a musculoskeletal oncologist within the Murtha Cancer Center at Walter Reed, as well as a consultant for the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Potter retired as a Colonel from the U.S. Army in 2023, following over 22 years of active duty service.
            
        
                
            
                Primary Specialty
                
Surgeon
            
            
                        
                            Practice
                            Benjamin "Kyle" Potter, MD
                        
                    
                        Gender
                        Male
                    
                                    
                        Education
                        University of Chicago
                    
                                    
                        Training
                        Walter Reed Military Medical Center
                    
                                                
                    
                        
     Accepting New Patients
    
        Insurances Accepted
        Aetna, Amerihealth Caritas (Transplant patients only), Centivo, Cigna Healthcare, Claim Watcher (Homestead/INDECs), Clover Health, Devoted Health Plan, Geisinger Health Plan, Global Medical Management, HealthAmerica / HealthAssurance, a Coventry Plan, Highmark Blue Shield, Highmark Wholecare (fka Gateway Health), Horizon BC/BS of NJ, Humana Medicare, Humana Military (Tricare/Health Net Federal Services), Imagine Health (Imagine Health 360), Independence Blue Cross (IBC), Jefferson Health Plans/Health Partners, Keystone First Health Plan, Medicaid - New Jersey, Medicaid - Pennsylvania, Medicare - Pennsylvania, Oscar Health Plan of PA, Oxford Health Plan, PA Health & Wellness, Perennial Advantage, Preferred Health Care/Eliance, Provider Partners Health Plan, Qualcare, Rail Road Medicare/Palmetto GBA, UnitedHealthcare, UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of PA, UPMC Health Plan, US Family Health Plan, VA Insurance (Veteran's CCN)
    
    
        Degrees
        Medical Doctor
    
    
        Admitting Hospitals
        Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Pennsylvania Hospital
    
                     
             
         
     
        
        
            Services
            acetabular surgery, achilles tendon surgery, amputation above the knee surgery, amputation below the knee surgery, amputation of the finger surgery, amputation of the foot surgery, amputation of the hip, amputation of the leg surgery, amputation of the thumb surgery, ankle fracture surgery, ankle fusion, arm fracture surgery, arthrodesis of the knee, benign tumor removal of the hand, bone cancer surgery, cancerous tumor removal of the hand, clavicle fracture surgery, colles fracture surgery, correction of syndactyly, curettage of bone lesions, distal femoral osteotomy, elbow fracture surgery, excision of bone cyst, external fixation, femoral osteotomy, femur fracture surgery, forearm fracture surgery, hardware removal, heterotopic ossification excision, hip fracture surgery, hip surgery, humerus fracture surgery, iliac fracture surgery, internal fixation, knee fracture surgery, knee fusion, knee surgery, leg fracture surgery, limb salvage, lower leg rodding of bone, monteggia fracture surgery, nerve reconstruction, open reduction and internal fixation orif arm, open reduction and internal fixation orif elbow, open reduction and internal fixation orif hip, open reduction and internal fixation orif knee, open reduction and internal fixation orif shoulder, open reduction internal fixation orif clavicle, open reduction internal fixation orif of scapula, open reduction internal fixation orif proximal humerus, orthopedic oncology surgery, osteotomy, painful hardware removal, percutaneous pinning, pollicization, polytrauma reconstruction, post traumatic reconstruction, reconstruction of hip, reconstructive knee surgery, regenerative peripheral nerve interface (rpni) upper extremity, removal of hip prosthesis, removal of knee prosthesis, rotationplasty, sacral fracture surgery, skeletal reconstruction, soft tissue biopsy, synovectomy of knee, targeted muscle reinnervation (tmr) lower extremity, tendon repair surgery, toe transfer, total hip revision, total knee revision, ulnar nerve surgery