Joshua Balog, MD

Joshua Balog, MD

  • Cardiac Electrophysiology

Taking care of patients is a privilege and I strive to make every patient feel better. I tailor each treatment for each patient, using state-of-the-art techniques and my expertise to arrive at the best outcomes.

Languages Spoken

  • Spanish

Specialties, Procedures &
Conditions Treated

Primary Areas of Practice

  • Cardiac Electrophysiology

Other Areas of Practice

  • Cardiac Rehabilitation
  • Cardio-Oncology
  • Nuclear Cardiology
  • Preventive Cardiology
  • Women and Heart Disease

Procedures

  • 24-Hour Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring
  • Ambulatory Telemetry Monitoring
  • Arrhythmia Management
  • Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
  • Cardioversion
  • Coronary Calcium Score
  • Coronary CT Angiography
  • Cryoablation
  • Defibrillator Implantation
  • Echocardiography
  • Exercise Stress Testing
  • Holter/Ambulatory Monitoring
  • ICD Placement
  • Pacemaker Follow-Up
  • Pacemaker Implantation
  • Pharmacological Stress Test
  • Radiofrequency Ablation
  • Tilt Table Test
  • Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE)
  • Watchman® Implant

Conditions Treated

  • Angina
  • Arrhythmias
  • Atrial Fibrillation
  • Cardiomyopathy
  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Heart Attack
  • Heart Block
  • Heart Failure/Cardiac Failure
  • Heart Valve Disease
  • Hyperlipidemia
  • Hypertension
  • Mitral Valve Prolapse
  • Palpitations
  • Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD)
  • Pulmonary Hypertension
  • Shortness of Breath
  • Supraventricular Tachycardia (SVT)
  • Syncope (Fainting)
  • Tachycardia
  • Ventricular Tachycardia (VT)

Locations &
Appointments

Locations

  • HVA Medical Group

    A

    22-18 Broadway Suite 102 Fair Lawn, NJ 07410

    Main: 201-414-9766
    Fax: 201-414-9751

    Monday
    2:00 PM
    -
    5:00 PM

  • HVA Medical Group

    B

    70 Hilltop Road Suite 3001 Ramsey, NJ 07446

    Main: 201-934-0043
    Fax: 201-934-0217


    Please call for available appointment times at this location, or make an appointment online.

  • HVA Medical Group

    C

    637 Route 23 South Suite 100 Pompton Plains, NJ 07444

    Main: 862-666-9210
    Fax: 862-666-9215


    Please call for available appointment times at this location, or make an appointment online.

  • Multispecialty Care of West New York

    D

    435 57th Street West New York, NJ 07093

    Main: 201-520-1069
    Fax: 201-520-1085

Appointments

Book Online

Insurance

Insurances Accepted

Please contact your insurance company directly prior to receiving services or care to confirm your coverage. Although we have made every effort to ensure this list is accurate, only your health insurance plan can provide complete information regarding your coverage and potential out-of-pocket costs.

1199 (SEIU)

  • 1199 (SEIU)

Aetna

  • Aetna Assure Premier Plus
  • Aetna CCN
  • Aetna CoreSource
  • Aetna Coventry
  • Aetna FIDE-SNP
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna Medicare Managed Care
  • Aetna POS
  • Aetna PPO
  • Aetna Whole Health HMO
  • Aetna Whole Health PPO
  • Medsolutions
  • Meritan Health

Amerigroup

  • Amerigroup Medicaid
  • Amerivantage

AmeriHealth

  • AmeriHealth Administrator
  • AmeriHealth HMO
  • AmeriHealth PPO
  • Value Network (Exchange Plan)

APWU

  • APWU Health Plan

Cigna

  • Cigna HMO
  • Cigna Medicare Advantage
  • Cigna Open Access Plus
  • Cigna PPO
  • Cigna Supplemental
  • Great-West Healthcare (GWH)
  • Health Partners

Clover Health

  • Clover Medicare Advantage

EmblemHealth

  • EmblemHealth EPO
  • EmblemHealth EPO2
  • EmblemHealth FEHB
  • EmblemHealth FEHBP
  • EmblemHealth GHI CBP
  • EmblemHealth GHI PPO
  • EmblemHealth National
  • EmblemHealth PPO1
  • EmblemHealth PPO2
  • EmblemHealth PPO3
  • EmblemHealth Tri-State
  • Vytra

Empire BCBS

  • Blue Priority
  • Empire BCBS EPO
  • Empire BCBS HealthPlus Gatekeeper (prefix VJD)
  • Empire BCBS Indemnity
  • Empire BCBS Medicare Advantage Plus
  • Empire BCBS PPO

Empire Plan (NYSHIP)

  • Empire Plan (NYSHIP)

First Health

  • First Health

GEHA

  • GEHA Health Plan

Horizon BCBS

  • Federal Employee Program
  • Horizon BCBS Braven Health
  • Horizon BCBS EPO
  • Horizon BCBS HMO
  • Horizon BCBS Medicare Managed Care
  • Horizon BCBS PPO
  • NJ Carpenters Fund
  • OMNIA Tier 1
  • Traditional

Horizon NJ Health

  • Horizon NJ Health Medicaid
  • Horizon NJ TotalCare (D-SNP)

MagnaCare

  • Local 825
  • MagnaCare PPO

Mail Handlers

  • Mail Handlers Benefit Plan (MHBP)

Medicaid

  • Medicaid NJ

Medicare

  • Medicare NJ

MultiPlan/PHCS

  • Beech Street
  • MultiPlan Humana
  • MultiPlan Worker's Comp
  • PHCS
  • Pomco

MVP Health Care

  • MVP Health Care PPO

NALC

  • NALC Health Benefit Plan

Nippon Life Insurance Co of America

  • Nippon Life Benefits

Oxford

  • Freedom
  • Garden State Network
  • Liberty
  • Metro
  • Oxford Medicare

QualCare

  • Choice Care
  • HIP HMO
  • HIP PPO
  • HIP PRIME HMO
  • HIP PRIME PPO
  • Oscar
  • QualCare EPO
  • QualCare FEHB
  • QualCare GHI PPO
  • QualCare HMO
  • QualCare Humana
  • QualCare PPO
  • QualCare Worker's Comp

Railroad Medicare

  • Railroad Medicare NJ

TRICARE North Region

  • CHAMPVA
  • DVA

UMR

  • UMR

United Healthcare Community and State

  • Dual Complete
  • UnitedHealthcare Community and State Medicaid (NJ FamilyCare)
  • UnitedHealthcare Community and State Medicare

UnitedHealthcare

  • AARP
  • Commercial and Marketplace
  • Compass Benefit (Exchange)
  • Medica
  • River Valley
  • UnitedHealthcare EPO
  • UnitedHealthcare HMO
  • UnitedHealthcare POS
  • UnitedHealthcare PPO
  • UnitedHealthcare StudentResources

Wellcare

  • Wellcare Ambetter
  • Wellcare Medicaid Managed Care
  • Wellcare Medicare Managed Care

About

About Joshua Balog

Dr. Balog, part of HVA Medical Group, is board certified in cardiovascular disease, clinical cardiac electrophysiology and internal medicine, with additional certification in nuclear cardiology. His primary clinical interest is heart rhythm disorders, including atrial fibrillation, atrial flutter, syncope, and supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia. He has expertise in cardiac resynchronization therapy, radiofrequency catheter ablation and hybrid ablation procedures, pacemaker and ICD implants, and left atrial appendage closure procedures. Dr. Balog received his MD from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He did an internal medicine residency at the Boston University School of Medicine and a cardiovascular medicine fellowship at North Shore-LIJ Health System, followed by a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, in Philadelphia. He is a fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society. In addition to English, he is conversant in Spanish.

Honors & Awards

Fellow, Heart Rhythm Society

2018-2015: Jersey Choice Top Doctor, New Jersey Monthly

Teaching Positions

2016-present: Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine

Professional Memberships

Heart Rhythm Society

American College of Cardiology

American Medical Association

Education &
Training

Education & Degrees

MD: Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Residency

Boston University School of Medicine

Fellowship

North Shore LIJ Health System, Cardiovascular Medicine

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Board Certifications

  • Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology (American Board of Internal Medicine)
  • Cardiovascular Disease (American Board of Internal Medicine)
  • Internal Medicine (American Board of Internal Medicine)

Publications

Publications

Balog J, An Unusual Short RP Tachycardia: What is the Mechanism?, Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 28(6):727-728, 2017.

Frisch D, Kenia A, Wallinsky P, Balog J, Managed Ventricular Pacing Facilitating Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry, Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, 37(11):1568-1571, 2014.

Schulze PC, Biolo A, Gopal D, Shahzad K, Balog J, Fish M, Siwik D, Colucci WS, Dynamics in insulin resistance and plasma levels of adipokines in patients with acute decompensated and chronic stable heart failure, Journal of Cardiac Failure, 17(12):1004-1011.

Balog J, Frisch D, Whellan D, Ho R, Alternating Short and Long RP Tachycardias- What are the Mechanisms? Heart Rhythm, 7(12):1907-9, 2010.

Biolo A, Fisch M, Balog J, Chao T, Schulze PC, Ooi H, Siwik D and Colucci WS, Episodes of Acute Heart Failure Syndrome are Associated with Increased Levels of Troponin and Extracellular Matrix Markers, Circulation: Heart Failure, 3:44-50, 2010.

Petrylak D, Macarthur R, O'Connor J, Shelton G, Judge T, Balog J, Pfaff C, Bagiella E, Heitjan D, Fine R, Zuech N, Sawczuk I, Benson M and Olsson C, Phase I Trial of Docetaxel with Estramustine in Androgen-Independent Prostate Cancer, Journal of Clinical Oncology, 17:958-967, 1999.