List of works - Richard Duszak

A comparison of diagnostic imaging ordering patterns between advanced practice clinicians and primary care physicians following office-based evaluation and management visits

scientific article

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

scientific article published on May 2011

Actionable reporting

scientific article published on 2 August 2014

Adverse action reports against optometrists: perspectives from the National Practitioner Data Bank over 18 years

scientific article

Another unpaid second opinion

scientific article published on September 2005

Appropriateness, Scheduling, and Patient Preparation

Arthrography Coding: Not Disjointed at All

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Bacterial contamination of radiologist workstations: results of a pilot study

scientific article published on 28 June 2013

Board Certification Characteristics of Practicing Neuroradiologists

scientific article published on 26 September 2019

Building a Better Compliance Officer

Business intelligence, data mining, and future trends

scientific article

CPT coding by interventional radiologists: a multi-institutional evaluation of accuracy and its economic implications

scientific article published on October 2004

CT colonography and virtual reimbursement

scientific article

Can Patients Comprehend the Educational Materials that Hospitals Provide about Common IR Procedures?

scientific article

Cardiac CT and coronary CTA: early Medicare claims analysis of national and regional utilization and coverage

scientific article published in August 2011

Cardiac MRI: Will Coverage Ever Flow?

Central venous access: evolving roles of radiology and other specialties nationally over two decades

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Characteristics of MR Neuroimaging Services Billed by Radiologists versus Nonradiologists

scientific article published on 27 September 2018

Clinical Services by Interventional Radiologists: Perspectives From Medicare Claims Over 15 Years

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Clinical outcomes in patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism and negative helical computed tomographic results in whom anticoagulation was withheld

scientific article

Coding and billing: the long road from ABC to W-2

scientific article published on 01 January 2004

Coding certification: Can you afford less?

article by Richard Duszak published March 2005 in Journal of the American College of Radiology

Coding for CAD

Coding issues for interventional radiology: get paid for what you do!

scientific article

Coexpression of cytokeratins 7 and 20 confirms urothelial carcinoma presenting as an intrarenal tumor

scientific article published on 01 December 1999

Colonic and cardiac imaging: two steps forward...

scientific article published on November 2009

Comparative analysis of Medicare spending for medical imaging: sustained dramatic slowdown compared with other services

scientific article

Completely limited coding

scientific article

Compliance: not all fun and games

scientific article published on May 2004

Cost Analysis of Dialysis Access Maintenance Interventions across Physician Specialties in U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Cross-sectional angiography: reconstructing the correct codes

scientific article published on May 2007

Deauthorization: the insidious new payer trick

scientific article published on September 2006

Deciphering the Reimbursement Lexicon

Delivery of appropriateness, quality, safety, efficiency and patient satisfaction

scientific article

Diagnosis Please…If You Want To Get Paid!

Diagnostic Radiology Resident and Fellow Workloads: A 12-Year Longitudinal Trend Analysis Using National Medicare Aggregate Claims Data

scientific article

Dictating for dollars (and compliance, too)

Do You Really Want That Package?

Documentation Means Dollars: A Few Simple Tips for Better Reimbursement

Emergency department CT of the abdomen and pelvis: preferential utilization in higher complexity patient encounters

scientific article published on June 2012

Emergency department imaging: uncompensated services rendered by radiologists nationwide

scientific article published in June 2014

Emerging reimbursement for emerging CT technology

scientific article published in September 2008

Evolving Use of fMRI in Medicare Beneficiaries

scientific article published on 08 October 2020

Evolving roles of radiologists, nephrologists, and surgeons in endovascular hemodialysis access maintenance procedures

scientific article

Expanded Payer Coverage for Ultrasound Evaluation of Deep Vein Thrombosis With Sonographer-Obtained Clinical History

scientific article

Expanding roles of nurse practitioners and physician assistants as providers of nonvascular invasive radiology procedures

scientific article

Expanding utilization and regional coverage of diagnostic CT colonography: early Medicare claims experience

scientific article published in April 2011

From Good to Good Deal: Value-focused Research ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2012

How Do Publicly Reported Medicare Quality Metrics for Radiologists Compare With Those of Other Specialty Groups?

scientific article published on September 2015

How Much Do Common Imaging Studies Cost? A Nationwide Survey of Radiology Trainees

scientific article published in November 2015

Imaging Appropriateness and Implementation of Clinical Decision Support

In Search of an Acceptable Coding Error Rate

Increased fluoroscopy time for central venous catheter placement by radiology residents versus staff radiologists

scientific article published on July 2013

Information technology vendors: Unwitting facilitators of medical errors?

scholarly article by Richard Duszak et al published July 2004 in Journal of the American College of Radiology

Lower-extremity endovascular interventions for Medicare beneficiaries: comparative effectiveness as a function of provider specialty

scientific article published in January 2012

Magnitude of Impact, Overall and on Subspecialties, of Transitioning in Radiology from ICD-9 to ICD-10 Codes

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Malpractice issues in radiology: medicare compliance versus standard of care conformance--real or imaginary conflict?

scientific article published in June 2010

Malpractice payments by optometrists: an analysis of the national practitioner databank over 18 years

scientific article published on 24 July 2010

Measuring and Managing Radiologist Productivity, Part 2: Beyond the Clinical Numbers

Measuring and managing radiologist productivity, part 1: clinical metrics and benchmarks

scientific article published on June 2010

Medically Unbelievable Edits: Unbelievable Indeed

Medicare Policy Initiatives and the Relative Utilization of "Double-Scan" CT.

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Medicare Utilization of Vascular Ultrasound From 1998 to 2013: Continued Growth in Both Radiologist and Nonradiologist Imaging

scientific article published on 07 December 2015

Medicare for All: Considerations for Neuroradiologists

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting System: early national radiologist experience and near-future performance projections

scientific article

Medicare's physician quality reporting initiative: incentives, physician work, and perceived impact on patient care

scientific article

Modality Access: Strategies for Optimizing Throughput

Money and Reputation: Squandered Opportunities of a Clinical IR Service

National and local trends in CT colonography reimbursement: past, present, and future

scientific article published on November 2007

National fluid shifts: fifteen-year trends in paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures

scientific article

National trends in percutaneous cholecystostomy between 1994 and 2009: perspectives from Medicare provider claims

scientific article published on July 2012

New CT codes to take to heart

scientific article published on November 2005

New Codes, Once Again

New rules, new codes, and the fall from grace

scientific article published on January 2005

New year, new codes...and all new confusion

scientific article published on January 2007

Optimizing Modality Operations

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P4P: Pragmatic for Practice

Paying for transcription: not very professional

scientific article published in March 2008

Pelvic sonography: OB or not OB

Percutaneous hepatic and renal biopsy procedures: an 18-year analysis of changing utilization, specialty roles, and sites of service

scientific article published on 11 March 2015

Perspectives on the value of advanced medical imaging: a national survey of primary care physicians

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Physician documentation deficiencies in abdominal ultrasound reports: frequency, characteristics, and financial impact

scientific article published in June 2012

Pitfalls That May Contribute to “Lyse and Wait” Declotting Failures ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1998

Placement and Removal of Inferior Vena Cava Filters: National Trends in the Medicare Population

Practice Management and Health Policy Education in Radiology: An Emerging Imperative

scientific article published on 25 June 2015

Prevalence of Burnout Among Canadian Radiologists and Radiology Trainees

article published in 2018

Preventing Another Group From Displacing Your Practice: Perspectives From the 2010 AMCLC

Professional component payment reductions for diagnostic imaging examinations when more than one service is rendered by the same provider in the same session: an analysis of relevant payment policy

scientific article published on 29 June 2011

Professional efficiencies for diagnostic imaging services rendered by different physicians: analysis of recent medicare multiple procedure payment reduction policy

scientific article published on 8 April 2013

Protocol design and optimization

scientific article published in May 2014

Protocol management and design: current and future best practices

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Qui tam means trouble

scientific article published on November 2006

RAC or racket? You be the judge

scientific article published on March 2009

Replacement of Failing Tunneled Hemodialysis Catheters through Pre-existing Subcutaneous Tunnels: A Comparison of Catheter Function and Infection Rates for De Novo Placements and Over-the-Wire Exchanges ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 1998

Same-Day Sinus and Brain CT Imaging in the Medicare Population: Are Practice Patterns Changing in Association with Medicare Policy Initiatives?

scientific article published on 28 January 2016

Social media in radiology: early trends in Twitter microblogging at radiology's largest international meeting

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Spontaneous pneumocephalus after commercial air travel complicated by meningitis

scientific article published on December 2011

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum due to achalasia: an unusual but benign cause

scientific article published in November 2010

Stability and infrequency of radiologic technologist malpractice payments: an analysis of the National Practitioner Data Bank

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Sustainable Growth Rate Repealed, MACRA Revealed: Historical Context and Analysis of Recent Changes in Medicare Physician Payment Methodologies

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Teaching Physician Compliance

The Impact Factory

The new reconstruction codes: 3-D is better than no D.

scientific article published on January 2006

The ordering physician rules!

scientific article published on May 2006

The role of the radiologist in new payment systems

scientific article published on 10 March 2016

The scope and distribution of imaging services at critical access hospitals

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Trainee Knowledge of Imaging Appropriateness and Safety: Results of a Series of Surveys From a Large Academic Medical Center

scientific article published on 31 October 2017

Transmural coil extrusion after embolization for colonic hemorrhage

scientific article published in September 2010

Trends in the utilization of medical imaging from 2003 to 2011: clinical encounters offer a complementary patient-centered focus

scientific article published on July 2013

Upper Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage and Transcatheter Embolotherapy: Clinical and Technical Factors Impacting Success and Survival ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2001

Utilization management in radiology, part 1: rationale, history, and current status

scientific article published on October 2012

Utilization management in radiology, part 2: perspectives and future directions

scientific article published on October 2012

Value-Based Medicine: Organizing IR Care through Integrated Practice Units

scientific article published in March 2016

Value: Imaging's New Wave Imperative ⬇️

scientific article published on March 22, 2013

Vascular occlusion: can we push radiofrequency ablation into new size frontiers?

scientific article published in May 2004

Venous access: deciphering the new codes

Virtual whatever-ography: a coding conundrum

scientific article published in July 2007

When Expert Coding Advice Isn’t

White paper from the ACR Task Force on Print Media in Radiology

scientific article published on October 2011

List of works by Richard Duszak

A comparison of diagnostic imaging ordering patterns between advanced practice clinicians and primary care physicians following office-based evaluation and management visits

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

Actionable reporting

Adverse action reports against optometrists: perspectives from the National Practitioner Data Bank over 18 years

Another unpaid second opinion

Appropriateness, Scheduling, and Patient Preparation

Arthrography Coding: Not Disjointed at All

Author's Reply

Author's Reply

Author’s Reply

Author’s Response

Bacterial contamination of radiologist workstations: results of a pilot study

Board Certification Characteristics of Practicing Neuroradiologists

Building a Better Compliance Officer

Business intelligence, data mining, and future trends

CPT coding by interventional radiologists: a multi-institutional evaluation of accuracy and its economic implications

CT colonography and virtual reimbursement

Can Patients Comprehend the Educational Materials that Hospitals Provide about Common IR Procedures?

Cardiac CT and coronary CTA: early Medicare claims analysis of national and regional utilization and coverage

Cardiac MRI: Will Coverage Ever Flow?

Central venous access: evolving roles of radiology and other specialties nationally over two decades

Characteristics of MR Neuroimaging Services Billed by Radiologists versus Nonradiologists

Clinical Services by Interventional Radiologists: Perspectives From Medicare Claims Over 15 Years

Clinical outcomes in patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism and negative helical computed tomographic results in whom anticoagulation was withheld

Coding and billing: the long road from ABC to W-2

Coding certification: Can you afford less?

Coding for CAD

Coding issues for interventional radiology: get paid for what you do!

Coexpression of cytokeratins 7 and 20 confirms urothelial carcinoma presenting as an intrarenal tumor

Colonic and cardiac imaging: two steps forward...

Comparative analysis of Medicare spending for medical imaging: sustained dramatic slowdown compared with other services

Completely limited coding

Compliance: not all fun and games

Cost Analysis of Dialysis Access Maintenance Interventions across Physician Specialties in U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries

Cross-sectional angiography: reconstructing the correct codes

Deauthorization: the insidious new payer trick

Deciphering the Reimbursement Lexicon

Delivery of appropriateness, quality, safety, efficiency and patient satisfaction

Diagnosis Please…If You Want To Get Paid!

Diagnostic Radiology Resident and Fellow Workloads: A 12-Year Longitudinal Trend Analysis Using National Medicare Aggregate Claims Data

Dictating for dollars (and compliance, too)

Do You Really Want That Package?

Documentation Means Dollars: A Few Simple Tips for Better Reimbursement

Emergency department CT of the abdomen and pelvis: preferential utilization in higher complexity patient encounters

Emergency department imaging: uncompensated services rendered by radiologists nationwide

Emerging reimbursement for emerging CT technology

Evolving Use of fMRI in Medicare Beneficiaries

Evolving roles of radiologists, nephrologists, and surgeons in endovascular hemodialysis access maintenance procedures

Expanded Payer Coverage for Ultrasound Evaluation of Deep Vein Thrombosis With Sonographer-Obtained Clinical History

Expanding roles of nurse practitioners and physician assistants as providers of nonvascular invasive radiology procedures

Expanding utilization and regional coverage of diagnostic CT colonography: early Medicare claims experience

From Good to Good Deal: Value-focused Research ⬇️

How Do Publicly Reported Medicare Quality Metrics for Radiologists Compare With Those of Other Specialty Groups?

How Much Do Common Imaging Studies Cost? A Nationwide Survey of Radiology Trainees

Imaging Appropriateness and Implementation of Clinical Decision Support

In Search of an Acceptable Coding Error Rate

Increased fluoroscopy time for central venous catheter placement by radiology residents versus staff radiologists

Information technology vendors: Unwitting facilitators of medical errors?

Lower-extremity endovascular interventions for Medicare beneficiaries: comparative effectiveness as a function of provider specialty

Magnitude of Impact, Overall and on Subspecialties, of Transitioning in Radiology from ICD-9 to ICD-10 Codes

Malpractice issues in radiology: medicare compliance versus standard of care conformance--real or imaginary conflict?

Malpractice payments by optometrists: an analysis of the national practitioner databank over 18 years

Measuring and Managing Radiologist Productivity, Part 2: Beyond the Clinical Numbers

Measuring and managing radiologist productivity, part 1: clinical metrics and benchmarks

Medically Unbelievable Edits: Unbelievable Indeed

Medicare Policy Initiatives and the Relative Utilization of "Double-Scan" CT.

Medicare Utilization of Vascular Ultrasound From 1998 to 2013: Continued Growth in Both Radiologist and Nonradiologist Imaging

Medicare for All: Considerations for Neuroradiologists

Medicare's Physician Quality Reporting System: early national radiologist experience and near-future performance projections

Medicare's physician quality reporting initiative: incentives, physician work, and perceived impact on patient care

Modality Access: Strategies for Optimizing Throughput

Money and Reputation: Squandered Opportunities of a Clinical IR Service

National and local trends in CT colonography reimbursement: past, present, and future

National fluid shifts: fifteen-year trends in paracentesis and thoracentesis procedures

National trends in percutaneous cholecystostomy between 1994 and 2009: perspectives from Medicare provider claims

New CT codes to take to heart

New Codes, Once Again

New rules, new codes, and the fall from grace

New year, new codes...and all new confusion