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Barbara C Holbert

Barbara C Holbert, MD

Primary Care

Mass General Brigham

Highlights

Age Groups Seen

  • Adults

Languages

  • English

Gender

Female

Locations

  1. Massachusetts General Downtown Primary Care Clinic

Expertise

Education

  • Internship: VA Boston Healthcare System (Training), 1988
  • Residency: VA Boston Healthcare System (Training), 1988
  • Medical Education: Boston University, 1985

Board Certifications

  • Internal Medicine: American Board of Internal Medicine, 1988

Insurance

Search plans
  • Aetna
  • Beech Street
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
  • Cigna
  • Commonwealth Care Alliance
  • Coventry
  • Fallon Health
  • Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
  • Humana
  • Maine Community Health Options
  • Mass General Brigham Health Plan
  • MassHealth
  • MassHealth ACO
  • Medicaid ME
  • Medicaid NH
  • Medicaid RI
  • Medicaid VT
  • Medicare
  • Multiplan
  • Railroad Medicare
  • TriCare
  • Tufts Health Plan
  • United Health Care
  • Wellpoint
  • WellSense
  • WellSense NH

Ratings & Reviews

4.9 out of 5

193 ratings, 85 reviews

The Patient Satisfaction Rating is an average of all responses to the care provider related questions shown below from our survey. Patients that are treated in outpatient or hospital environments may receive different surveys, and the volume of responses will vary by question.

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  • Reviewed on 7/1/2026

    A good experience

  • Reviewed on 6/25/2026

    Knowledgeable, empathetic.

  • Reviewed on 6/24/2026

    Dr holbert is the best ever.

  • Reviewed on 6/10/2026

    Dr. Holbert has all the qualities I feel are important in a primary care physician. Professional, knowledgeable, caring, she listens carefully and treats you respectfully, including you in your care and treatment. She always makes you feel you are working together, as a team, and is open to exploring options.

  • Reviewed on 6/8/2026

    Dr. Holbert is great. She is very down-to-earth and easy to talk to.

  • Reviewed on 6/3/2026

    Dr Holbert is always on top of things and provides compassionate care.

  • Reviewed on 6/5/2026

    I have been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for more than 30 years and she is a wonderful provider. I wouldn't have anyone else.

  • Reviewed on 6/3/2026

    I am very lucky to have Dr. Holbert as my primary care physician. She is outstanding.

  • Reviewed on 6/3/2026

    I have been going to Dr. Holbert for over 30 years and feel incredibly fortunate every time I see her. She is one of a kind, thoughtful and caring, and very approachable on all levels. Her experience as a primary care physician is priceless really and I continue to feel lucky that I remain one of her patients. My husband has been seeing her for 30 years and many of our friends have also because she is an incredible doctor.

  • Reviewed on 5/29/2026

    Patients could benefit from more availability of this provider.

  • Reviewed on 5/28/2026

    Good experience with Barbara Holbert. One suggestion would be to have the blood test done prior to the yearly physical. That way, the results could be discussed at the appointment rather than follow-up after.

  • Reviewed on 5/24/2026

    Dr Holbert very nice doctor polite and caring she been my primary for very long time she is knows my issues and health challenges , and listen to my concerns and try to help .

  • Reviewed on 5/20/2026

    I totally trust my PCP to guide and give me the direction I need.

  • Reviewed on 5/15/2026

    Dr. Holbert and Downtown Medical are always professional and helpful.

  • Reviewed on 5/12/2026

    My experience with this provider was excellent. They were professional, attentive, and took the time to listen carefully to my concerns while making me feel comfortable and well cared for throughout the visit. I truly appreciated their thoughtful approach, clear communication, and genuine compassion. I left feeling confident in my care and very grateful for the positive experience.

  • Reviewed on 5/13/2026

    This care provider is exceptionally great customer service. I've been seeing ?

  • Reviewed on 4/30/2026

    Dr. Holbert and the entire MGH downtown team are just great. ?

  • Reviewed on 4/30/2026

    Dr Holbert is THE BEST.

  • Reviewed on 4/28/2026

    Very happy as always with my primary care provider.

  • Reviewed on 4/29/2026

    Dr. Holbert is very professional, knowledgeable and compassionate.

  • Reviewed on 4/22/2026

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  • Reviewed on 4/20/2026

    I've been with Dr. Holbert for years. I find her to be the most professional and kindest doctor I've ever dealt with. She understands me personally and my medical history and is able to give me the best advice possible! I couldn't imagine not seeing Dr. Holbert..

  • Reviewed on 4/16/2026

    Dr. Holbert has been my primary care doctor for over 30 years, and she is awesome. She listens and takes her time with me during visits.

  • Reviewed on 4/16/2026

    Extremely knowledgeable, kind and warm.patient oriented and empathetic

  • Reviewed on 4/16/2026

    I hope Dr. Holbert never retires!

  • Reviewed on 4/10/2026

    I have been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for 30 years and she is by far the best. I'm very lucky that she is my primary care and she always gives me excellent care and everyone in the office is helpful, knowledgeable, respectful, and very professional. So I'm very happy that this is my doctor's office. Thank you.

  • Reviewed on 4/9/2026

    Dr. Holbert gives me the opportunity to ask questions and listens and doesn't rush through the appointment which is greatly appreciated. She is thorough, professional, and personable.

  • Reviewed on 4/8/2026

    Dr. Holbert has been my Primary Care Physician for approximately 20 years. At age [redacted] it seems to me that you should know what a great doctor she is as well as I do.

  • Reviewed on 3/17/2026

    Dr. Holbert is incredibly knowledgeable and kind. She makes inquiries that demonstrate she has a strong understanding of my conditions and wants to ensure that I am receiving the best possible care. She explains the test that they will be running and why, and provides manageable and usable suggestions to improve my treatment.

  • Reviewed on 3/18/2026

    Dr. Holbert has been my doctor literally since I graduated from college. I am now about to turn [redacted], and I used to work in Boston, and I don't any longer, but I always make the trip to see her because I like her, know her, and trust her, and she's a great doctor.

  • Reviewed on 3/13/2026

    Dr. Holbert and her team are extremely professional, compassionate, and knowledgeable. Thank them very much.

  • Reviewed on 3/12/2026

    As always, Dr. Holbert was thorough and respectful. She listened to my issues and answered all my questions.

  • Reviewed on 3/11/2026

    My doctor is Barbara Holbert. She's been my doctor for 46 years. She also was my mom's doctor for elder care. She is wonderful, wonderful. Best doctor and only doctor I've ever had.

  • Reviewed on 3/8/2026

    Dr Holbert is great. So practical and helpful

  • Reviewed on 3/5/2026

    All good!

  • Reviewed on 2/26/2026

    Always care about my health

  • Reviewed on 2/22/2026

    I feel I am getting the highest quality care from Dr. Holbert.

  • Reviewed on 2/18/2026

    I feel as though I am in good hands respective to health care.

  • Reviewed on 2/26/2026

    I've been seeing Dr Holbert for years and she is excellent and very easy to work with.

  • Reviewed on 2/11/2026

    I think Barbara Holbert is one of the best doctors I've ever been to. I've been seeing her for many years and the clarity of information coming from her, her concentrated interest and personal attention is greatly appreciated. She is very attentive, not being distracted by other things. She asks all the right questions and is a delight to have as a primary care physician. Again, like I said, I've been seeing her for probably over 30 years. So it's been the best. I wish her all well in the future. She's the best.

  • Reviewed on 2/6/2026

    Dr. Holbert always listens and provides excellent care, has great follow-up, and would highly recommend her.

  • Reviewed on 2/7/2026

    Dr. Holbert has been my care provider for over 15 years, and I am very satisfy with her care.

  • Reviewed on 2/4/2026

    I deeply respect Dr. Holbert. She's been a strong provider and attentive listener for the years that I've had her as my primary care physician. She's found some good and helpful strategies for figuring out what might be the best way forward on a number of different concerns. I am grateful for her. She's found ways around some tough situations with my insurance. I would highly recommend her. I'm grateful for her. Thank you so much.

  • Reviewed on 1/25/2026

    Dr. Holbert is amazing. She always listens to me and helps me understand everything. I feel like she really cares. She knows all my feelings and is so attentive to my needs and quirks. And she know I love when shen sends the letter to follow up test. And always puts me at ease. She's the best Dr. I'm blessed to have her.

  • Reviewed on 1/23/2026

    Dr. Holbert is excellent and very helpful, insightful, and thorough for all of my questions. I've seen her and her practice for a very long time, but I'm very appreciative as I've had some changes in my health, and the care provided by her and her office helps me to stay as well as possible. So excellent care provided by her and everyone on her team. Really, really appreciated. Thank you.

  • Reviewed on 1/21/2026

    Very understanding

  • Reviewed on 1/21/2026

    Always on top of explaining my issues. With my Limbic Autoimmune Encephalitis my memory on stuff. Now to remember these things, I do jot them down... bless the whole staff.

  • Reviewed on 1/16/2026

    I always have a great experience with Dr. Holbert. He's been my primary care for at least 15 years. He knows my situation. She's very responsive and very helpful.

  • Reviewed on 1/14/2026

    Hi, Barbara Holbert and her team is beyond excellent. She's impossible for new patients. And in fact, even when I signed up with her 20 plus years ago, I was lucky to be able to get in and be her patient. Over the last few decades, she's caught some very crucial things. I'm a DES daughter and caught that I needed a leap procedure. She is present and thoughtful and like everything you could possibly want in a doctor. And in fact, I asked her, begged her, please, to not even consider retiring anytime soon because she's that excellent and her whole team is like that. So I absolutely could not recommend the office and Barbara Holbert, Dr. Holbert, and her whole team enough. I mean, they're just exemplary. And I hope that you're paying her enough and treating her very well because she's excellent.

  • Reviewed on 1/11/2026

    Dr. Holbert has always given me excellent care and follow up when needed.

  • Reviewed on 1/11/2026

    Very knowledgeable, polite, and i felt well taken care of

  • Reviewed on 12/28/2025

    I've been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for nearly 20 years, she's the absolute best. I look forward to my annual visits with her. She's an incredible provider - I wish everyone had such a wonderful PCP!

  • Reviewed on 12/26/2025

    There's no one like her Helpful in all the ways

  • Reviewed on 12/24/2025

    Working with Dr. Holbert is always a pleasure. Thank you.

  • Reviewed on 12/21/2025

    Excellent and thougtful

  • Reviewed on 12/16/2025

    Barbara has been my Primary for decades and is awesome. I dread the day she retires and I have to find someone else!

  • Reviewed on 12/11/2025

    Dr. Holbert has been my PCP for many years and I love her. She has been genuine and compassionate during my medical and personal challenges throughout the years. She is also smart and an excellent listener. I dread the day Dr. Holbert retires.

  • Reviewed on 12/11/2025

    I've been a patient of Dr Holbert for about 30 or so years. She is the best and your lucky to have her in your MGH group

  • Reviewed on 12/11/2025

    Dr. Holbert consistently provides caring and compassionate care while also being adept at getting straight to the heart of the issue. I also feel as if I play a key part in the shared decision-making process

  • Reviewed on 12/9/2025

    I've been a patient of Dr. Holbert's for almost 30 years, and I can't imagine anyone else providing the level of care that she does. She's wonderful.

  • Reviewed on 12/8/2025

    Dr Holbert always review and always go over my overall healthcare in detail. I am very satisfied with Dr Holbert she is always very thorough going through my overall health.

  • Reviewed on 12/7/2025

    Dr Holbert is a patient provider, good listener and works to address any questions, concerns or medical issues I may have. She is one of my favorite doctors that I had over the years I hope she never retires :)

  • Reviewed on 12/1/2025

    Dr Holbert is amazing- listens, gives great advice, straightforward, always pleasant and very informative.

  • Reviewed on 12/5/2025

    Dr. Holbert and staff are wonderful, professional, thoughtful, hard-working and overall, the base care givers around.

  • Reviewed on 12/4/2025

    Dr Holbert always listens carefully to my concerns and addresses each of them - without prejudice. And, I very much appreciate her attempts to help me.

  • Reviewed on 11/19/2025

    Dr. Holbert listens and explains extremely well. It is so helpful to see her and she makes herself available when one needs help.

  • Reviewed on 11/19/2025

    I have been sub Dr Holbert for over 30 years I moved out of mass to nh and still drive down to see her . She is a fantastic Dr and a genuinely nice person.

  • Reviewed on 11/5/2025

    Dr. Holbert is the best!

  • Reviewed on 11/6/2025

    I have been seeing Dr. Holbert since I was 28 years old - more than half of my life. I feel very lucky to have been under her care for all that time. She saw me from infertility through a cancer diagnosis last year, from my husband's vasectomy through my own menopause. It is an amazing professional relationship to bear witness to someone else's life.

  • Reviewed on 11/2/2025

    Dr. Holbert is knowledgeable about medical history & proactively advises on vaccines needed.

  • Reviewed on 10/31/2025

    Dr. Holbert has been my PCP for many, many years. I have the utmost faith and confidence in her and find her to be a very, very, very professional doctor and wonderful to work with.

  • Reviewed on 10/30/2025

    Dr Holbert is fabulous.

  • Reviewed on 10/30/2025

    They're very accommodating.

  • Reviewed on 10/23/2025

    I've had the same provider over 25+ years and I am provided with excellent service.

  • Reviewed on 10/13/2025

    Appointment was very thorough

  • Reviewed on 10/9/2025

    Dr Holbert has been my PCP for many years and I'm thrilled with the care she provides.

  • Reviewed on 10/8/2025

    Hope that she does not retire any time soon!

  • Reviewed on 10/8/2025

    Dr Holbert is amazing

  • Reviewed on 9/17/2025

    This office is great and Dr barbara holbert is the best . She listens and gives great advice . I trust her with my healthcare needs

  • Reviewed on 9/17/2025

    I appreciated the time she spent with me and respecting my decisions to not have some aspects of recommended care. I haven't seen her since Covid and there was alot to catch on it was a great visit.

  • Reviewed on 8/27/2025

    Dr Holbert is outstanding. Very grateful to have her as my PCP. She is why I'm willing to travel from Cape Cod for care.

  • Reviewed on 8/27/2025

    My provider has always been concerned about everything about my health. And she's been accurate. And on a scale of 1 to 10, she gets a 10.

  • Reviewed on 8/24/2025

    Yeah, some patients might feel anxious or a little, you know, anxiety about going to a doctor's appointment. But for my appointments with what we're talking about, I don't, I feel like no anxiety. I feel like, sort of like at home, I can be open. There's no ears about people at all. They're just, they know how to communicate with all different types of people. And like I've been treated very well by everybody from people behind the desk to doctors, nurses, assistants, blood work. He's a great guy, big time, you know, and it's just that it's not, stressful experience.

  • Reviewed on 8/21/2025

    I've been a patient of Dr Hobert's for 20+ years. She is always professional. She maintains a good sense of humor. She is one of the best doctors that I've seen in my lifetime.

  • Reviewed on 8/23/2025

    Dr Holbert's always attentive and committed to my health and care.