Professor and Vice Chair for Health Policy and Practice, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
Radiology
Dr. Richard Duszak Jr., MD
Richard Duszak works in the field of Radiology. He researched medicine at Penn State College of Medicine. He over the years received 27 awards: "Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award", "Most Influential Radiology Researcher", "Outstanding Reviewer Award", "Volunteer Service Award", "William T. Thorwarth, Jr. Award for Excellence in Economics and Health Policy", "Best Doctors in Memphis", "Featured Alumnus", "Fellow, Radiology Business Management Association", "Fellow (RBMA)", "Fellow, American College of Radiology", "Fellow (ACR)", "Exceptional Manuscript Reviewer Award", "Fellow, Society of Interventional Radiology", "Best Doctors in America", "Calhoun Award for Outstanding Contributions to Radiology Management", "Editors Recognition Award, with Special Distinction", "Distinguished Faculty Award", "Distinguished Reviewer Award", "Residents Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching", "Andrew E. Yeates Memorial Award for Excellence in Neuroradiology", "Sylvia and Gilbert Nurick Medical Achievement Award for Academic Excellence and Outstanding Contributions to the College Community", "The Edward C. Hammond Memorial Scholarship for Academic Excellence", "Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society", "Biology Department Outstanding Graduate Award", "University Scholarship", "Annual AuntMinnie.com Minnies Awards for Excellence in Radiology" and "Fellow (FSIR)". Doctor Richard Duszak Jr., MD is also published. He has 101 publications published. The lastest publication: "Secondary Interpretation of CT Examinations: Frequency and Payment in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Population.' Richard Duszak accepts Medicare payments and is registered with Medicare.gov.
Publications
- A Roadmap for Value-Based Payments.
- Reassessing medicare trends in diagnostic CT colonography after achieving CPT code category I status.
- Implementation of a Novel Surveillance Template for Head and Neck Cancer: Neck Imaging Reporting and Data System (NI-RADS).
- Sustainable Growth Rate Repealed, MACRA Revealed: Historical Context and Analysis of Recent Changes in Medicare Physician Payment Methodologies.
- How Much Do Common Imaging Studies Cost? A Nationwide Survey of Radiology Trainees.
- Medicare Policy Initiatives and the Relative Utilization of "Double-Scan" CT.
- Expanded Payer Coverage for Ultrasound Evaluation of Deep Vein Thrombosis With Sonographer-Obtained Clinical History.
- Magnitude of Impact, Overall and on Subspecialties, of Transitioning in Radiology from ICD-9 to ICD-10 Codes.
- Regional variation in medicare payments for medical imaging: radiologists versus nonradiologists.
- The challenges in delivering the value chain.
- Recent trends in adherence to continuous screening for breast cancer among Medicare beneficiaries.
- The Nuclear Medicine Therapy Care Coordination Service: A Model for Radiologist-Driven Patient-Centered Care.
- Percutaneous Hepatic and Renal Biopsy Procedures: An 18-Year Analysis of Changing Utilization, Specialty Roles, and Sites of Service.
- Trends in lumbar puncture over 2 decades: a dramatic shift to radiology.
- Business intelligence, data mining, and future trends.
- Perspectives on the Value of Advanced Medical Imaging: A National Survey of Primary Care Physicians.
- Traditional Text-Only Versus Multimedia-Enhanced Radiology Reporting: Referring Physicians' Perceptions of Value.
- National specialty trends in billable diagnostic ultrasound in the ED: analysis of Medicare claims data.
- International perspectives on radiology practice metrics: Australia, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Spain, the UK and USA.
- A Comparison of Diagnostic Imaging Ordering Patterns Between Advanced Practice Clinicians and Primary Care Physicians Following Office-Based Evaluation and Management ...
- Expanding Roles of Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants As Providers of Nonvascular Invasive Radiology Procedures.
- The impact of social media on readership of a peer-reviewed medical journal.
- ACR White Paper: Strategies for Radiologists in the Era of Health Care Reform and Accountable Care Organizations: A Report From the ACR Future Trends Committee.
- Utilization management in radiology, part 1: rationale, history, and current status.
- Increased Fluoroscopy Time for Central Venous Catheter Placement by Radiology Residents versus Staff Radiologists.
- Trends in the utilization of medical imaging from 2003 to 2011: clinical encounters offer a complementary patient-centered focus.
- The Health Care Value Transparency Movement and Its Implications for Radiology.
- Social Media and Public Outreach: A Physician Primer.
- Expert witness blinding strategies to mitigate bias in radiology malpractice cases: a comprehensive review of the literature.
- The scope and distribution of imaging services at critical access hospitals.
- Actionable reporting.
- Communication of Actionable Information.
- Emergency department imaging: uncompensated services rendered by radiologists nationwide.
- Protocol design and optimization.
- Optimizing Modality Operations.
- Appropriateness, scheduling, and patient preparation.
- Delivery of appropriateness, quality, safety, efficiency and patient satisfaction.
- Comparative analysis of Medicare spending for medical imaging: sustained dramatic slowdown compared with other services.
- Social Media in Radiology: Early Trends in Twitter Microblogging at Radiology's Largest International Meeting.
- Central venous access: evolving roles of radiology and other specialties nationally over two decades.
- Value: imaging's new wave imperative.
- Bacterial Contamination of Radiologist Workstations: Results of a Pilot Study.
- Professional Efficiencies for Diagnostic Imaging Services Rendered by Different Physicians: Analysis of Recent Medicare Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction Policy.
- Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting System: early national radiologist experience and near-future performance projections.
- Utilization management in radiology, part 2: perspectives and future directions.
- National trends in percutaneous cholecystostomy between 1994 and 2009: perspectives from Medicare provider claims.
- Emergency department CT of the abdomen and pelvis: preferential utilization in higher complexity patient encounters.
- Physician documentation deficiencies in abdominal ultrasound reports: frequency, characteristics, and financial impact.
- Transmural coil extrusion after embolization for colonic hemorrhage.
- Spontaneous pneumomediastinum due to achalasia: an unusual but benign cause.
- From good to good deal: value-focused research.
- Lower-extremity endovascular interventions for Medicare beneficiaries: comparative effectiveness as a function of provider specialty.
- Spontaneous pneumocephalus after commercial air travel complicated by meningitis.
- White Paper From the ACR Task Force on Print Media in Radiology.
- Professional component payment reductions for diagnostic imaging examinations when more than one service is rendered by the same provider in the same session: an anal...
- Cardiac CT and coronary CTA: early Medicare claims analysis of national and regional utilization and coverage.
- Placement and removal of inferior vena cava filters: national trends in the medicare population.
- Adverse action reports against optometrists: perspectives from the National Practitioner Data Bank over 18 years.
- Expanding utilization and regional coverage of diagnostic CT colonography: early Medicare claims experience.
- Coding issues for interventional radiology: get paid for what you do!
- Preventing another group from displacing your practice: perspectives from the 2010 AMCLC.
- Malpractice payments by optometrists: an analysis of the national practitioner databank over 18 years.
- Evolving roles of radiologists, nephrologists, and surgeons in endovascular hemodialysis access maintenance procedures.
- Clinical services by interventional radiologists: perspectives from Medicare claims over 15 years.
- National fluid shifts: fifteen-year trends in paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures.
- Stability and infrequency of radiologic technologist malpractice payments: an analysis of the National Practitioner Data Bank.
- Measuring and managing radiologist productivity, part 2: beyond the clinical numbers.
- Measuring and managing radiologist productivity, part 1: clinical metrics and benchmarks.
- Medicare's physician quality reporting initiative: incentives, physician work, and perceived impact on patient care.
- Malpractice issues in radiology: medicare compliance versus standard of care conformance--real or imaginary conflict?
- Colonic and cardiac imaging: two steps forward...
- Documentation means dollars: a few simple tips for better reimbursement.
- P4P: pragmatic for practice.
- Cardiac MRI: will coverage ever flow?
- RAC or racket? You be the judge.
- Do you really want that package?
- Building a better compliance officer.
- Emerging reimbursement for emerging CT technology.
- In search of an acceptable coding error rate.
- Coding for CAD.
- Paying for transcription: not very professional.
- New codes, once again.
- National and local trends in CT colonography reimbursement: past, present, and future.
- Arthrography coding: not disjointed at all.
- Teaching physician compliance.
- Virtual whatever-ography: a coding conundrum.
- Cross-sectional angiography: reconstructing the correct codes.
- Medically unbelievable edits: unbelievable indeed.
- New year, new codes...and all new confusion.
- Qui tam means trouble.
- Deauthorization: the insidious new payer trick.
- Completely limited coding.
- The ordering physician rules!
- Deciphering the reimbursement lexicon.
- The new reconstruction codes: 3-D is better than no D.
- New CT codes to take to heart.
- Another unpaid second opinion.
- When expert coding advice isn't.
- Diagnosis please...if you want to get paid!
- Secondary Interpretation of CT Examinations: Frequency and Payment in the Medicare Fee-for-Service Population.
Schools
Pa State Univ Coll Of Med
York Hosp
Duke U Med Ctr
Hosp Of The U Penn
Doctors Specialties
- Diagnostic Radiology
- Radiology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award
- Most Influential Radiology Researcher
- Outstanding Reviewer Award
- Volunteer Service Award
- William T. Thorwarth, Jr. Award for Excellence in Economics and Health Policy
- Best Doctors in Memphis
- Featured Alumnus
- Fellow, Radiology Business Management Association
- Fellow (RBMA)
- Fellow, American College of Radiology
- Fellow (ACR)
- Exceptional Manuscript Reviewer Award
- Fellow, Society of Interventional Radiology
- Best Doctors in America
- Calhoun Award for Outstanding Contributions to Radiology Management
- Editor’s Recognition Award, with Special Distinction
- Distinguished Faculty Award
- Distinguished Reviewer Award
- Residents Annual Award for Excellence in Teaching
- Andrew E. Yeates Memorial Award for Excellence in Neuroradiology
- Sylvia and Gilbert Nurick Medical Achievement Award for Academic Excellence and Outstanding Contributions to the College Community
- The Edward C. Hammond Memorial Scholarship for Academic Excellence
- Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
- Biology Department Outstanding Graduate Award
- University Scholarship
- Annual AuntMinnie.com Minnies Awards for Excellence in Radiology
- Fellow (FSIR)
Education
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University of Pennsylvania Health System
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Duke University Hospital
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Wellspan York Hospital
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Penn State College of Medicine
Hospital
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Emory University Hospital
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Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta
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