Dr. Denise Bruckerhoff is a Doctor of Osteopathy. She graduated with honors from Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2006. While in her final year of medical school, she trained in a different city virtually every month. These experiences were extremely beneficial and were instrumental in shaping her style of practice.

Dr. Bruckerhoff loves working with people throughout different stages of their lives, caring for others and helping them live a healthy, quality life by providing compassionate and comprehensive healthcare. Providing valuable care and tools for patients to continue to see healthy results is extremely important to her.

In addition to her medical training, Dr. Bruckerhoff spent approximately eight years managing the care of patients in various settings. Her experiences have included acute care hospital, long-term acute care hospital, acute rehabilitation, nursing home, hospice, independent living, assisted living, and home healthcare. This intensive exposure helped her to create a multi-level approach to patient care. She understands that all individuals are not created equal, and she is committed to providing the highest quality of care to her patients.

In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, friends, exercising, sports, traveling, and cooking. She is an avid University of Kansas Jayhawks fan.

Education and Training

• Kansas City University of Medicine & Biosciences – College Of Osteopathic Medicine
• Residency – Plaza Medical Center
• Medical Training – Kansas City University of Physicians & Surgeons

Board Certification

• Internal Medicine

Insurance Information

We accept nearly all major insurance plans including:

• ​Aetna
• Aetna Choice POS II​
• Aetna Managed Choice POS Open Access
• Aetna Signature Administrators PPO
• BCBS
• Blue Advantage
• Blue Essentials
• Blue Premier
• BlueChoice PPO
• Cigna
• PPO
• Humana
• Humana ChoiceCare Network PPO
• Humana National POS
• United Healthcare​
• UHC Navigate POC
• UHC Options PPO
• UHC AARP Secure Horizons
• MC Adv HMO
• MC Adv PPO
• Scott and White Health Plan
• Imagine Health
• Medicare
• Medicaid as Secondary
• Tricare